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Managing certificates
Managing certificates
Digital certificates are electronic documents that are used to validate the end parties or
entities involved in data transfer. These certificates are normally associated with X.509 public
key certificates and are used to bind a public key to a recognized party for a specific time
period.
The service controller uses certificates for the authentication and/or encryption of data
exchanged with peers. The following services make use of certificates:
Managers or operators accessing the service controller management tool
HTML users accessing the public access interface
SOAP clients communicating with the service controller SOAP server
RADIUS EAP-TLS
RADIUS EAP-PEAP (server certificate only)
IPSec connections
NOC authentication (see NOC authentication on page 9-59.)
The certificate stores provide a repository for managing all certificates (except for those used
by IPSec and NOC authentication). To view the certificate stores, select Service Controller
>> Security > Certificate stores.
Trusted CA certificate store
This list displays all root CA certificates installed on the service controller. The service
controller uses the CA certificates to validate the certificates supplied by peers during
authentication. Multiple CA certificates can be installed to support validation of peers with
certificates issued by different CAs.
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