Switched Rack PDU

USER’S GUIDE

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The server certificate that you upload to the Rack PDU enables SSL to authenticate that data are being received from and sent to the correct Rack PDU. This provides an extra level of security beyond the encryption of the user name, password, and transmitted data.

The root certificate that you install to the browser enables the browser to authenticate the Rack PDU’s server certificate to provide additional protection from unauthorized access.

Disadvantage:

Because the certificates do not have the digital signature of a commercial Certificate Authority, you must load a root certificate individually into the certificate store (cache) of each user’s browser. (Browser manufacturers already provide root certificates for commercial Certificate Authorities in the certificate store within the browser. See Method 3.)

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