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Configuring SSL
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• Current Certificate Details—Provides current information
related to SSL certificates. This part of the page shows the
following items:
— The public certificate. The same certificate is used for both web
and software connections. The certificate contains public
information that is not secret. (The certificate has a private
counterpart, the SSL private key, which is kept secret and is
not displayed.)
— The MD5 fingerprint of the certificate. This is the fingerprint
of the certificate using the Message Digest 5 (MD5) algorithm.
The user can compare the fingerprint here with the fingerprint
provided by the web browser to ensure that they match.
— SHA-1 fingerprint certificate. This is the fingerprint of the
certificate using the SHA-1 algorithm. The user can compare
the fingerprint here with the fingerprint provided by the web
browser to ensure that they match.
NOTE: Browsers can supply the MD5 fingerprint, the SHA-1 fingerprint,
or both.
• New Certificate—Enables you to generate a new certificate and
identify the expiration period for the certificate.
• SSL Renegotiation—Enables you to define parameters for
renegotiation of the certificate.
Use the following procedures to configure SSL certificates:
1. Select Configure > SSL on the navigation panel. The SSL
configuration page
2. To enable or disable Web SSL, click the corresponding Enable and
Disable buttons. When enabled, all data sent over a web
connection is encrypted. When disabled, no data sent over the
connection is encrypted.
NOTE: Once Web SSL is enabled, the user is forced to log in again, and
accept, reject, or import the security certificate.
TIP: A connection to a product that has Web SSL enabled is established by specifying
at the beginning of the URL. If only
https
automatically redirected to the URL beginning with
(Figure 3-12 on page 3-24) displays.
is used, the connection is
http
https
.