Generate certificate prompts – HP Onboard Administrator User Manual

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General management commands 52

Email Address

Surname

Given Name

Alternative Name

Initials

DN Qualifier

Challenge Password

Unstructured Name

o

The Alternative Name field is used to create the X509v3 Subject Alternative Name extension
attribute. The field must be empty or contain a list of keyword:value pairs separated by commas. The
valid keyword:value entries include IP:<ip address> and DNS:<domain name>.

Access level/Bay level:
OA administrator

Restrictions:
This command is not valid in SCRIPT MODE.

GENERATE CERTIFICATE prompts

Prompt

Description

Restrictions

OA Host Name (CN)

This is the most important field.

This is the Onboard
Administrator name that

appears in the browser web

address field. This certificate
attribute is generally referred to

as the common name.

Must be 1 to 60 characters long. To prevent

security alerts, the value of this field must match
the host name exactly as it is known by the web

browser. The browser compares the host name

in the resolved web address to the name that
appears in the certificate. For example, if the

web address in the address field is

https://oa-001635.xyz.com, then the value
must be oa-001635.xyz.com.

Organization Name (O)

The company or organization

that owns this Onboard

Administrator. When this
information is used to generate

a certificate signing request,

the issuing certificate authority
can verify that the organization

requesting the certificate is

legally entitled to claim
ownership of the given

company name or

organization name.

Must be 1 to 60 characters long.

City or Locality (L)

The city or locality where the

Onboard Administrator is
located.

Must be 1 to 50 characters long.

State or Province (ST)

The state or province where the

Onboard Administrator is

located.

Must be 1 to 30 characters long.

Country (C)

The two-character country code

that identifies the country

Must be a two-character country code.

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