Requesting and installing a new signed certificate

If your current signed certificate has expired or is about to expire, you can request a new signed certificate from a certificate authority.

In the management GUI, select Settings > Security > Secure communications and select signed certificate and complete the form to create a request for a signed certificate for your system. After you receive the certificate from the certificate authority, use this panel to install the certificate on the system.

  1. In the command-line interface, enter the following command to create a new certificate request:
    chsystemcert -mkrequest -keytype ecdsa521 -country GB -state Hampshire -locality Hursley -org MYCO -orgunit Storage -commonname svcsystem1.myco.com -email admin@myco.com
    The certificate request is automatically written to /dumps/certificate.csr
  2. Use secure copy (scp) to copy the file /dumps/certificate.csr from the system and send this file to a certificate authority (CA) to sign. The certificate authority returns a signed certificate. After you receive the certificate, use scp to copy the certificate back onto the system in the file /dumps/certificate.cer, where certificate.cer is the name of the certificate.
  3. After you copy the certificate to the system, install the certificate on the system by entering the following command:
    chsystemcert -install -file /dumps/certificate.cer