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Create a Server Certificate and Signing Request
Summary
Use this procedure if your company or agency has its own Certificate
Authority or if you plan to use a commercial Certificate Authority to
sign your server certificates.
Create a Certificate Signing Request (CSR).The CSR contains all the
information for a server certificate except the digital signature. This
process creates two output files:
The file with the .p15 extension contains the Switched Rack PDU’s
private key.
The file with the .csr extension contains the certificate signing
request, which you send to an external Certificate Authority.
When you receive the signed certificate from the Certificate Authority,
import that certificate. Importing the certificate combines the .p15 file
containing the private key and the file containing the signed certificate
from the external Certificate Authority. The output file is a new
encrypted server certificate file with a .p15 extension.
Load the server certificate onto the Switched Rack PDU.
For each Switched Rack PDU that requires a server certificate, repeat
the tasks that create and load the server certificate.
The procedure
Create the Certificate Signing Request (CSR). Perform these steps.
(Click Next to move from screen to screen.)
1. If the APC Security Wizard is not already installed on your computer,
install it by running the installation program APC Security Wizard.exe
from the APC Rack PDU Utility CD that came with your Rack PDU.
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2. On the Windows Start menu, select Programs, then APC Security
Wizard, to start the Wizard program.
3. On the screen labeled “Step 1,” select Certificate Request as the type
of file to create.
4. Enter a name for the file that will contain the Switched Rack PDU’s
private key. The file name must have a .p15 extension. By default, the
file will be created in the installation folder C:\Program
Files\American Power Conversion\APC Security Wizard.
5. On the screen labeled Step 2, provide the information to configure the
certificate signing request (CSR) with the information that you want the
signed server certificate to contain. The Country and Common Name
fields are required; the other fields are optional. For the Common
Name field, enter the IP Address or DNS name of the Switched Rack
PDU.
6. On the next screen, review the summary of the certificate. Scroll
downward to view the certificate’s unique serial number and
fingerprints. To make any changes to the information you provided,
click Back, and revise the information.
7. The last screen verifies that the certificate signing request has been
created and displays the location and name of the file, which has a .csr
extension.
By default, a server certificate is valid for 10 years from the
current date and time, but you can edit the Validity Period
Start and Validity Period End fields.
The certificate’s subject information and the certificate’s
issuer information should be identical.
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8. Send the certificate signing request to an external Certificate Authority,
either a commercial Certificate Authority or, if applicable, a Certificate
Authority managed by your own company or agency.
Import the signed certificate. When the external Certificate Authority
returns the signed certificate, perform these steps to import the certificate.
This procedure combines the signed certificate and the private key into an
SSL server certificate that you then upload to the Switched Rack PDU.
(Click Next to move from screen to screen.)
1. On the Windows Start menu, select Programs, then APC Security
Wizard, to start the Wizard program.
2. On the screen labeled Step 1, select Import Signed Certificate.
3. Browse to and select the signed server certificate that you received
from the external Certificate Authority. The file has a .cer or .crt
extension.
4. Browse to and select the file you created in step 4 of the task, Create the
Certificate Signing Request (CSR). This file has a .p15 extension, contains
the Switched Rack PDU’s private key, and, by default, is located in the
installation folder C:\Program Files\American Power Conversion\APC
Security Wizard.
5. Specify a name for the output file that will be the signed server
certificate that you upload to the Rack PDU. The file must have a .p15
extension.
6. Click Next to generate the server certificate. The certificate’s Issuer
Information on the summary screen confirms that the external
Certificate Authority signed the certificate.
See also
See the instructions provided by the Certificate Authority
regarding the signing and issuing of server certificates.
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