APC Battery Management System manual Using the APC Security Wizard

Battery Management System

USER’S GUIDE

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Authentication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Authentication versus encryption 114

Encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Secure SHell (SSH) and Secure CoPy (SCP) 115

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 117

Creating and Installing Digital Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Purpose 119

Choosing a method for your system 120

Firewalls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Using the APC Security Wizard 127

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Authentication 127

Files you create for SSL and SSH security 129

Create a Root Certificate & Server Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Summary 131

The procedure 132

Create a Server Certificate and Signing Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Summary 137

The procedure 138

Create an SSH Host Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Summary 142

The procedure 142

How to Export Configuration Settings 145

Retrieving and Exporting the .ini file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Summary of the procedure 145

Contents of the .ini file 146

Detailed procedures 147

The event and its error messages 150

Messages in config.ini 151

Errors generated by overridden values 151

Using the Device IP Configuration Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

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