Generating And Storing A Csr; Obtaining Certificates - HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Administrator's Manual

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Generating and storing a CSR

After generating a public/private key, perform this procedure on each switch.
1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Enter this command:
switch:admin>
3. Enter the requested information:
Country Name (2 letter code, eg, US):
State or Province Name (full name, eg, California):
Locality Name (eg, city name):
Organization Name (eg, company name):
Organizational Unit Name (eg, department name):
Common Name (Fully qualified Domain Name, or IP address):
Generating CSR, file name is: 192.1.2.3.csr
Done.
Your CA may require specific codes for Country, State or Province, Locality, Organization, and
Organizational Unit names. Make sure that your spelling is correct and matches the CA requirements.
If the CA requires that the Common Name be specified as an FQDN, make sure that the fully qualified
domain name is set on the domain name server.
4. Enter this command to store the CSR:
switch:admin>
5. Enter the requested information:
Select protocol [ftp or scp]:
Enter IP address:
Enter remote directory: path_to_remote_directory
Enter Login Name: your account
Enter Password: your password
Success: exported CSR.
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 website; then, perform this procedure for each switch.
1. Generate and store the CSR as described in
Open a Web browser window on the management workstation and go to the CA website. Follow the
2.
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>
The contents of the CSR are 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.
HP recommends selecting 1024 in most cases. CA support for the 2048-bit key size is
seccertutil gencsr
seccertutil export
192.1.2.3
seccertutil showcsr
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"Generating and storing a
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192.1.2.3
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