HP (Hewlett-Packard) MSM7XX Switch User Manual


 
Security
Managing certificates
The service controller uses these certificates to validate certificates supplied by:
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
Items provided in this list are as follows:
ID
A sequentially assigned number to help identify certificates with the same common name.
Issued to
Name of the certificate holder. Select the name to view the contents of the certificate.
Current usage
Lists the services that are currently using this certificate.
CRL
Indicates if a certificate revocation list is bound to the certificate. An X.509 certificate
revocation list is a document produced by a certificate authority (CA) that provides a list
of serial numbers of certificate that have been signed by the CA but that should be
rejected.
Delete
Select to remove the certificate from the certificate store.
Installing a new CA certificate
1. Specify the name of the certificate file or select Browse to choose from a list. CA
certificates must be in X.509 or PKCS #7 format.
2. Select Install to install a new CA certificate.
CA certificate import formats
The import mechanism supports importing the ASN.1 DER encoded X.509 certificate directly
or as part of two other formats:
PKCS #7 (widely used by Microsoft products)
PEM, defined by OpenSSL (popular in the Unix world)
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