Raritan Engineering Command Center CC-SG - Manual (Page 148)

132 C OMMAND C ENTER S ECURE G ATEWAY A DMINISTRATOR G UIDE
Generate Certificate Signing Request
The following explains how to generate a CSR and a private key on CC-SG. The CSR will be
submitted to the Certificate Server who will issue a signed certificate. A root certificate will also
be exported from the Certificate Server and saved in a file. The signed certificate, root certificate,
and private key will then be imported.
1. Click Generate Certificate Signing Request and click Generate. The Generate Certificate
Signing Request window appears.
2. Type the requested data for the CSR into the fields.
Figure 158 Generate Certificate Signing Request Screen
3. Click OK to generate the CSR or Cancel to exit the window. The CSR and Private key
appears in the corresponding fields of the Certificate screen.
Figure 159 Certificate Request Generated
4. Using an ASCII editor, for example, Notepad, copy and paste the CSR into a file and save it
with a .cer extension.
5. Using an ASCII editor, for example, Notepad, copy and paste the Private Key into a file and
save it as a text file.
6. Submit the CSR file (.cer) saved in Step 4. to the Certificate Server to obtain a signed
certificate from the Server.
7. Download or export the root certificate from the Certificate Server and save it to a file with
a .cer extension. This is a different certificate from the signed certificate that will be issued
by the Certificate Server in the next step.
8. Once you receive the signed certificate from the Certificate Server, click Import pasted
certificate and private key.
9. Copy and paste the signed certificate into the Certificate Request field. Paste the Private Key
that was saved previously into the Private Key field.
10. Click Browse next to CA file: and select the root certificate file that was saved in Step 6.