Obtaining Certificates; Installing A Switch Certificate; Activating A Switch Certificate - HP AE370A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch 4/12 Administrator's Manual

If you are set up for secure file copy protocol, you can select it; otherwise, select ftp. Enter the IP address of
the switch on which you generated the CSR. Enter the remote Directory name of the FTP server to which the
CSR is to be sent. Enter your account name and password on the server.

Obtaining certificates

Check the instructions on the CA Web site; then, perform this procedure for each switch:
1. Generate and store the CSR as described in
2. Open a Web browser window on the management workstation and go to the CA Web site. Follow the
instructions to request a certificate. Locate the area in the request form into which you are to paste
the CSR.
3. Through a telnet window, connect to the switch and log in as admin.
4. Enter this command:
switch:admin> seccertutil showcsr
The contents of the CSR is displayed.
5. Locate the section that begins with "BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST" and ends with "END CERTIFICATE
REQUEST".
6. Copy and paste this section (including the BEGIN and END lines) into the area provided in the request
form; then, follow the instructions to complete and send the request.
It might take several days to receive the certificates. If the certificates arrive by email, save them to an FTP
server. If the CA provides access to the certificates on an FTP server, make note of the path name and
make sure you have a login name and password on the server.

Installing a switch certificate

Perform this procedure on each switch:
1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Enter this command:
switch:admin> seccertutil import
3. Select a protocol, enter the IP address of the host on which the switch certificate is saved, and enter
your login name and password:
Select protocol [ftp or scp]: ftp
Enter IP address:
Enter remote Directory:
Enter certificate name (must have ".crt" suffix):192.1.2.3.crt
Enter Login Name:
Enter Password: *****
Success: imported certificate [192.1.2.3.crt].
To use this certificate, run the configure command to activate it
The certificate downloads to the switch.
90 Configuring standard security features
"Generating a public/private
192.10.11.12
path_to_remote_Directory
your_account
key" on page 88.