Configuring Secure Socket Layer (SSL)

Configuring the Switch for SSL Operation

Password Button

 

Security Tab

 

 

 

Figure 8-2. Example of Configuring Local Passwords

1.Proceed to the security tab and select device passwords button.

2.Click in the appropriate box in the Device Passwords window and enter user names and passwords. You will be required to repeat the password strings in the confirmation boxes.

Both the user names and passwords can be up to 16 printable ASCII characters.

3.Click on [Apply Changes] button to activate the user names and passwords.

2. Generating the Switch’s Server Host Certificate

You must generate a server certificate on the switch before enabling SSL. The switch uses this server certificate, along with a dynamically generated session key pair to negotiate an encryption method and session with a browser trying to connect via SSL to the switch. (The session key pair mentioned above is not visible on the switch. It is a temporary, internally generated pair used for a particular switch/client session, and then discarded.)

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