APC AP7900 manual Creating and Installing Digital Certificates, Purpose

Switched Rack PDU

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Creating and Installing Digital Certificates

Purpose

For network communication that requires a higher level of security than password encryption, the Web interface of the Switched Rack PDU supports the use of digital certificates with the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. Digital certificates can authenticate the Switched Rack PDU (the server) to the Web browser (the SSL client).

The sections that follow summarize the three methods of creating, implementing, and using digital certificates. Read these sections to determine the most appropriate method for your system.

•Method 1: Use the auto-generated default certificate.

•Method 2: Use the APC Security Wizard to create a CA certificate and a server certificate.

•Method 3: Use the APC Security Wizard to create a certificate-signing request to be signed by the root certificate of an external Certificate Authority and to create a server certificate.

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You can also use Method 3 if your company or agency operates its own Certificate Authority. Use the APC Security Wizard in the same way, but use your own Certificate Authority in place of a commercial Certificate Authority.

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