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Importing Certicates to a Viewer on a Client Computer
NOTE: If you will be using only the non-PKI-authenticated viewer connections to the switch
(such as Level 1 – no encryption/authentication or Level 2 – 256-bit SSL encryption and only
server authentication by client), you are not obliged to use or import any certicates and you
can skip this section.
To make a fully PKI-authenticated viewer connection with the Digital KVM over IP Switch, you
need to import client certicates to the Win32 viewer and Java viewer on the client computer.
A default set of certicates is provided on the enclosed CD, or you can use your own set of
certicates. If using your own, in addition to importing the client certicates to the Win32/Java
viewer on the remote client computer(s), you should import the root certicate, the server
certicate and the server private key to the switch on the Web Management interface Security
Settings screen. (Refer to Main/Security – Certicate Installation, Viewer Encryption and
Password Policies in the next section.)
The le names of the client certicates can vary (client_name1.p12, client_name2.p12, etc.),
but the certicates and private key for the switch remain as they are (root.crt, server.crt,
serverkey.pem). The client certicates should be imported in the .p12 format, using the import
utility of whichever viewer (Win32 or Java) is on the client computer. NOTE: Make sure you have
the certicates ready for import, either on a transfer device or the local computer hard drive.
If you copy certicates to the local hard drive, you may need to delete them after nishing
the import so others won’t have access to the certicate les. Even though they’re password-
protected, one can never be too careful. Remember, too, that the Win32 and Java viewers
require separate certicate import utilities.
Import a Client Certicate to a Win32 Viewer
Go to Start ‡ Programs ‡ PROSUM
‡ KLE Viewer ‡ Import Certicates.
Click “Root Certicate” to import the
root certicate; click “Client Certicate”
to import the client certicate. When the
“successfully imported” message
appears in the text eld, click “Exit” to
proceed.
Import a Client Certicate to a Java Viewer
Go to Start ‡ Programs ‡ PROSUM
‡ KLE Viewer ‡ Import Certicates.
Click “Root Certicate” to import the
root certicate; click “Client Certicate”
to import the client certicate. When the
“successfully imported” message
appears in the text eld, close the
window to proceed.
Once you’ve imported certicates to the viewers on the client computer(s), you can make your
viewer connection(s).
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