Addendum, Networka ir acpa4000 – American Power Conversion AIRACPA4000 User Manual

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ADDENDUM

NetworkA

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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 Network Management
Card. (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 Network Management Card’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 Network Management Card. 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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