Removing the SSL Key
CLI Maintenance Guide
The GUI has an unsigned SSL key that it uses to authenticate with HTTPS clients.
This key is kept in a keystore file in the configs directory, "acopia.keystore." When
your browser first connects to the GUI and encounters this key, it issues a challenge
similar to the following:
By clicking
, you accept the ARX's SSL key. Your client then recognizes the SSL
Yes
key in future HTTPS connections.
The SSL key expires in one year. After the key expires, browsers warn that the key
has expired. Use the instructions in this chapter to regenerate the SSL key.
The SSL key in stored in the "acopia.keystore" file in the configs directory. You can
use the
command to view the contents of the configs directory, and you
show configs
can use
delete configs acopia.keystore
bstnA6k# show configs
Chapter 10
GUI Maintenance
to remove it. For example:
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