Black Box 1101, 1102 Common name, Organizational Unit, Locality/City, State/Province, Country

1101 and 1102 Secure Device Servers

Select System: SSL Certificate and fill out the fields as explained below:

Common name

This is the network name of the console server once it is installed in the network (usually the fully qualified domain name). It is identical to the name that is used to access the console server 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 console server is accessed using HTTPS.

Organizational Unit

Use this field to specify which department within an organization the console server belongs to.

Organization

The name of the organization that the console server belongs to.

Locality/City

The city where the organization is located.

State/Province

The state or province where the organization is located.

Country

The country where the organization is located. This is the two-letter ISO code, for example, DE for Germany, or US for the USA. (Note: Enter the country code in CAPITAL LETTERS.)

Email

The email address of a contact person that is responsible for the console server and its security.

Challenge Password

Some certification authorities require a challenge password to authorize later changes on the certificate (for example, revocation of the certificate). The password must be at least 4 characters long.

Confirm Challenge Password

Confirmation of the Challenge Password.

Key length

This is the length of the generated key in bits. 1024 Bits are supposed to be sufficient for most cases. Longer keys may result in slower response time of the console server when establishing a connection.

Once this is done, click on the button Generate CSR which will initiate the Certificate Signing Request generation. The CSR can be downloaded to your administration machine with the Download button.

Send the saved CSR string to a Certification Authority (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).

Upload the certificate to the console server using the Upload button as shown on the next page.

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