Creating a server or client certificate request

 

  1. Start DCM. Refer to Starting DCM.

  2. In the navigation frame of DCM, select Create New Certificate Store to start the guided task and complete a series of forms. These forms guide you through the process of creating a certificate store and a certificate that your applications can use for SSL sessions.

    If you have questions about how to complete a specific form in this guided task, select the question mark (?) at the top of the page to access the online help.

  3. Select *SYSTEM as the certificate store to create and click Continue.

  4. Select Yes to create a certificate as part of creating the *SYSTEM certificate store and click Continue.

  5. Select VeriSign or other Internet Certificate Authority (CA) as the signer of the new certificate, and click Continue to display a form that allows you to provide identifying information for the new certificate.

  6. Complete the form and click Continue to display a confirmation page. This confirmation page displays the certificate request data that provide to the public Certificate Authority (CA) that will issue your certificate. The Certificate Signing Request (CSR) data consists of the public key, distinguished name, and other information that you specified for the new certificate.

  7. Carefully copy and paste the CSR data into the certificate application form, or into a separate file, that the public CA requires for requesting a certificate. You must use all the CSR data, including both the Begin and End New Certificate Request lines.

    When you exit this page, the data is lost and you cannot recover it.

  8. When you exit this page, the data is lost and you cannot recover it.

  9. Wait for the CA to return the signed, completed certificate before you continue to the next task step for the scenario.

After the CA returns the signed completed certificate, you can configure your application to use SSL, import the certificate into the *SYSTEM certificate store, and assign it to your application to use for SSL.

 

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