Avocent PS/2 KVM manual Common name, Organizational unit, Locality/City

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Single port PS2 KVM over IP

Certificate Signing Request generation. The CSR can be downloaded to your administration machine with the ‘Download CSR’ button (see Figure 5.10).

2.Send the saved CSR to a CA for certification. You will get the new certificate from the CA after a more or less complicated traditional authentication process (depending on the CA).

3.Upload the certificate to PS/2 KVM over IP switch using the ‘Upload’ panel as shown in Figure 5.10.

After completing these three steps, PS/2 KVM over IP switch has its own certificate that is used for identifying the device to its clients.

Important Note:

If you destroy the CSR on PS/2 KVM over IP switch there is no way to get it back! In case you

. deleted it by mistake, you have to repeat the three steps

In the following the various options of the dialogs are described,

Figure 5.9: SSL Certificate Request

. Common name

This is the network name of PS/2 KVM over IP switch once it is installed in the user’s network (usually the fully qualified domain name). It is identical to the name that is used to access the device with a web browser (without the ‘http://’ prefix). In case the name given here and the actual network name differ, the browser will pop up a security warning when the device is accessed over HTTPS.

. Organizational unit

This field is used for specifying to which department within an organization PS/2 KVM over IP switch belongs.

. Organization

The name of the organization to which PS/2 KVM over IP switch belongs.

. Locality/City

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Avocent PS/2 KVM manual Common name, Organizational unit, Locality/City