Requesting And Adding Certificates; Create A Certificate Signing Request - Polycom RealPresence 1800 Administration Manual

Field
GMT Time
GMT Offset
Retrieve Client Time
Use NTP Server
Adjust Reservations
Time
3 Click OK.

Requesting and Adding Certificates

The RealPresence Collaboration Server can generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) to send to a
certificate authority (CA), a trusted entity that validates and officially issues, or signs, PKI certificates. The
RealPresence Collaboration Server uses those certificates for client and server authentication.
If your system is in an environment without a PKI, you do not need a CA-signed certificate; the system
comes with a self-signed certificate for its TLS connections. When a PKI is deployed, however, self-signed
certificates are not trusted and CA-signed certificates are needed.

Create a Certificate Signing Request

The following procedure creates a certificate signing request (CSR) that you can submit to your chosen
certificate authority. This method uses the private key generated at software installation time.
To create a certificate signing request:
1 In RMX Manager, go to Setup > RMX Secured Communication > Certification Repository.
2 Go to Personal Certificates and click Add.
3 Select the Network Service for which to request a certificate (commonly Default IP or IP Network
Service) and the Certificate Method of CSR and click Create Certificate Request.
4 Complete the following fields
CSR Information
Country Name
State or Province
Locality
Polycom, Inc.
Description
Select the Up/Down arrows to set the GMT Time.
The time zone difference between Greenwich and the MCU physical location, in
hours and minutes.
Automatically updates the GMT Date, GMT Time, and GMT Offset to match that of
the workstation.
When selected, synchronizes the MCU time with up to three NTP server and
disables the manual GMT Date and GMT Time setting.
This option adjusts the start time of all reservations.
Description
Two letter code for the country of
Specifies the state or province where your organization is located.
Specifies the city where your organization is located.
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