Purchasing And Installing A Certificate; Creating/Modifying System Flags; Enabling Secure Communication Mode - Polycom 1500 Administrator's Manual

RealPresence Collaboration Server (RMX) 1500/1800/2000/4000 Administrator's Guide

Purchasing and Installing a Certificate

Once a certificate is purchased and received it is stored in the Collaboration Server and used for all
subsequent secured connections. For more information see the Ultra Secure Mode chapter,
Certificates to the Certificate Repository
Certificates are deleted when an administrator performs a Restore Factory Defaults with the
Comprehensive Restore option selected.

Creating/Modifying System Flags

The following System Flags in system.cfg control secure communications.
● RMX_MANAGEMENT_SECURITY_PROTOCOL
● EXTERNAL_DB_PORT
Table 5-125, below, lists both flags and their settings.
If the System Flag, RMX_MANAGEMENT_SECURITY_PROTOCOL does not exist in the system, it must be
created by using the Setup menu.
For more information see
System Flags
Flag
RMX_MANAGEMENT_S
ECURITY_PROTOCOL
EXTERNAL_DB_PORT
The Collaboration Server must be restarted for modified flag settings to take effect.

Enabling Secure Communication Mode

After the SSL/TLS Certificate is installed, secure communications are enabled by modifying the properties
of the Management Network in the Management Network properties dialog box.
When Secure Communications Mode is enabled:
● Only https:// commands from the browser to the Control Unit IP Address of the Collaboration
Server are accepted.
● The Collaboration Server listens only on secured port 443.
● All connection attempts on port 80 are rejected.
● A secure communication indicator () is displayed in the browser's status bar.
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Modifying System Flags
Description
Enter the protocol to be used for secure communications.
Default: TLSV1_SSLV3 (both)..
The external database server port used by the Collaboration Server to
send and receive XML requests/responses.
For secure communications set the value to 443.
Default: 5005.
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