Creating And Installing A Certificate - Brother MFC-9970CDW Network User's Manual

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Creating and installing a certificate

Step by step chart for creating and installing a certificate
self-signed certificate
Create a self-signed certificate using Web Based
Management. (See page 71.)
Install the self-signed certificate to your computer.
(See page 71.)
You have completed creating and installing the
certificate.
How to create and install a self-signed certificate
a
Click Create Self-Signed Certificate on the Configure Certificate page.
b
Enter a Common Name and a Valid Date, then click Submit.
Note
• The length of the Common Name is less than 64 bytes. Enter an identifier such as an IP address, node
name or domain name to use when accessing this machine through SSL/TLS communication. The node
name is displayed by default.
• A warning will pop-up if you use the IPPS or HTTPS protocol and enter a different name in the URL than
the Common Name that was used for the self-signed certificate.
c
The self-signed certificate is created and saved in your machine's memory successfully.
To use SSL/TLS communication, the self-signed certificate also needs to be installed on your computer.
Proceed to the next section.
How to install the self-signed certificate on your computer
Note
The following steps are for Microsoft
text of the web browser itself.
or certificate from a CA
Create a CSR using Web Based Management.
(See page 76.)
Install the certificate issued by CA to your Brother
machine using Web Based Management. (See
page 77.)
Install the certificate to your computer. (See
page 77.)
You have completed creating and installing the
certificate.
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