Submitting a certificate signing request, Importing a ca-signed certificate – HP Systems Insight Manager User Manual

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Related procedures

Importing a server certificate

Importing a CA-signed certificate

Submitting a certificate signing request

Related topics

Server certificates

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Installing OpenSSH

Managing SSH keys

Submitting a certificate signing request

After creating the Certificate Signing Request (CSR), the CSR must be submitted to the desired

Certificate

Authority

(CA) for signing.

NOTE:

You must complete the Creating a CSR procedure before proceeding with this procedure. See

“Creating a certificate signing request”

for more information.

To submit request to CA:

1.

Select Options

SecurityCertificatesServer Certificates, and then click Import. The Import

Server Certificate

section appears.

2.

Click more next to Submit CSR to Certificate Authority (CA).

3.

Send the PKCS #10 (CSR) data to a CA.

After the CA has returned PKCS #7 data, import it into the HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM).

Related procedures

Importing a server certificate

Creating a certificate signing request

Importing a CA-signed certificate

Related topics

Server certificates

Networking and security

Installing OpenSSH

Managing SSH keys

Importing a CA-signed certificate

After creating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) and having it signed by a

Certificate Authority

(CA), you

can import the signed

certificate

.

The only importable certificate format is PKCS #7 formatted certificates. If the certificate reply received from
the CA is a single certificate, then first import a

self-signed root certificate

from the issuing CA into the HP

Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) Trusted System Certificates List. After importing the CA root certificate,
the certificate reply can then be imported to serve as the HP SIM server certificate.

NOTE:

On Windows and Linux, this process will also affect the local System Management Homepage

certificate and private key. On HP-UX systems, it will affect the WBEM Services certificate and private key.

NOTE:

HP SIM only supports importing certificates that have a public key size of 2,046 bits or less.

To import the signed certificate reply from a CA:

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