AMX NI-3101-SIG manual Server Exporting an SSL Certificate Request, Export SSL Certificate dialog

NetLinx Security within the Web Server

Server - Exporting an SSL Certificate Request

1.First follow the procedures outlined in theServer - Creating a Request for an SSL Certificate section on page 81 to begin the process of requesting an SSL by creating a session-specific Master certificate.

2.Click the Export Certificate Request button to display the certificate text file within the Server Certificate page (FIG. 50).

Certificate text field

FIG. 50 Export SSL Certificate dialog

3.Place your cursor within the certificate text field.

4.Press the Ctrl + A keys simultaneously on your keyboard (this selects all the text within the field).

YOU MUST COPY ALL OF THE TEXT within this field, including the -----BEGIN

CERTIFICATE REQUEST----- and the -----END CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----. This

text in the CA submission must be included to receive a CA-approved certificate.

5.Press the Ctrl + C keys simultaneously on your keyboard (this takes the blue selected text within the field and copies it to your temporary memory/clipboard).

6.Paste this text into the Submit Request field on the CA’s Retrieve Certificate web page.

7.Choose to view the certificate response in raw DER format.

8.Note the Authorization Code and Reference Number (for use in the e-mail submission of the request).

9.Submit the request.

10.Paste this certificate text field (copied from steps 4 & 5 above) into your e-mail document and then send that information to a CA with its accompanying certificate application.

When a certificate request is generated, you are creating a private key on the Master.

YOU CANNOT REQUEST ANOTHER CERTIFICATE UNTIL THE PREVIOUS REQUEST HAS BEEN FULFILLED. Doing so voids any information received from the previously requested certificate and it becomes nonfunctional if attempted to be used.

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