Establishing a cluster – HP Secure Key Manager User Manual

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4.

Click Create Certificate Request.

5.

Click on the newly created certificate from Certificate List, for example SKM Server.

6.

Copy the certificate data, from -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST----- to -----END

CERTIFICATE REQUEST--––– lines. Be careful to exclude extra carriage returns or spaces after

the data. This information will be used in step 10 of this section.

7.

In the Certificates & CAs menu, click Local CAs.

8.

Click on the CA name you created in

Setting up the local Certificate Authority (CA)

, for example

SKM Local CA.

9.

Click Sign Request.

10.

Enter data required by the Sign Certificate Request section of the window.

a. Select the CA name from the Sign with Certificate Authority drop down box. For example,

SKM Local CA.

b. Select Server as the Certificate Purpose.
c. Enter the number of days before the certificate must be renewed based on your site’s security

policies. The default value is 3649 or 10 years.

d. Paste the copied certificate data from step 6 into the Certificate Request box.

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