Generate and Download a
Certificate Signing Request for the
Site
Recovery Manager Appliance
Site
Recovery Manager Appliance
You generate a certificate signing
request (CSR) and a matching private key. The private key remains on the
Site
Recovery Manager Appliance
.A certificate signing request (CSR) is an
encrypted text file that contains specific information, such as organization name,
common name, locality, and country. You send the CSR file to a certificate authority
(CA) to apply for a digital identity certificate.
Generating a new private
key invalidates any existing CSR configuration.
- Log in to theSite Recovery Manager ApplianceManagement Interface as admin.
- Click theAccesstab.
- In theCertificatepane, clickGenerate CSR.
- Enter text values for your organization and organization unit, typically your company name, and the name of your group in the company.
- Accept the default FQDN and IP values and clickGenerate and download.
To submit a certificate
request to the CA in accordance with the CA enrollment process, use the
contents of the CSR file.
The CA creates a server
certificate based on the information in the CSR file, signs it with its private
key, and sends you the certificate, which you can then import to the
Site
Recovery Manager Appliance
.