Certificate Authorities; Generating A Public And Private Key; Generating And Storing A Csr - HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Administrator's Manual

5. Install the certificate on each switch. Once the certificate is loaded on the switch, HTTPS starts
automatically.
6. If necessary, install the root certificate to the browser on the management workstation.
7. Add the root certificate to the Java Plug-in keystore on the management workstation.

Certificate authorities

To ease maintenance and allow secure out-of-band communication between switches, consider using one
certificate authority (CA) to sign all management certificates for a fabric. If you use different CAs,
management services operate correctly, but the Web Tools Fabric Events button is unable to retrieve events
for the entire fabric.
Each CA (for example, Verisign or GeoTrust) has slightly different requirements; for example, some
generate certificates based on IP address, while others require an FQDN, and most require a 1024-bit
public/private key while some may accept a 2048-bit key. Consider your fabric configuration, check CA
Web sites for requirements, and gather all the information that the CA requires.

Generating a public and private key

Perform this procedure on each switch.
1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Enter the following command to generate a public/private key pair:
switch:admin>
The system reports that this process will disable secure protocols, delete any existing CSR, and delete
any existing certificates.
3. Respond to the prompts to continue and select the key size:
Continue (yes, y, no, n): [no]
Select key size [1024 or 2048]:
Generating new rsa public/private key pair
Done.
Because CA support for the 2048-bit key size is limited, you should select 1024 in most cases.

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 the following 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. The IP address or FQDN will be the server where the
certificate will be placed.
4. Enter the following command to store the CSR:
switch:admin>
seccertutil genkey
y
1024
seccertutil gencsr
San Jose
seccertutil export
US
California
Brocade
Eng
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