Users Guide

Uploading server certificate
Viewing server certificate
Uploading custom signing certificate
Downloading custom SSL certificate signing certificate
Deleting custom SSL certificate signing certificate
Generating a new certificate signing request
A CSR is a digital request to a Certificate Authority (CA) for a SSL server certificate. SSL server certificates
allow clients of the server to trust the identity of the server and to negotiate an encrypted session with
the server.
After the CA receives a CSR, they review and verify the information the CSR contains. If the applicant
meets the CA’s security standards, the CA issues a digitally-signed SSL server certificate that uniquely
identifies the applicant’s server when it establishes SSL connections with browsers running on
management stations.
After the CA approves the CSR and issues the SSL server certificate, it can be uploaded to iDRAC. The
information used to generate the CSR, stored on the iDRAC firmware, must match the information
contained in the SSL server certificate, that is, the certificate must have been generated using the CSR
created by iDRAC.
Related Links
SSL server certificates
Generating CSR using web interface
To generate a new CSR:
NOTE: Each new CSR overwrites any previous CSR data stored in the firmware. The information in
the CSR must match the information in the SSL server certificate. Else, iDRAC does not accept the
certificate.
1. In the iDRAC Web interface, go to Overview → iDRAC Settings → Network → SSL, select Generate
Certificate Signing Request (CSR) and click Next.
The Generate a New Certificate Signing Request page is displayed.
2. Enter a value for each CSR attribute.
For more information, see iDRAC Online Help.
3. Click Generate.
A new CSR is generated. Save it to the management station.
Generating CSR using RACADM
To generate a CSR using RACADM, use the objects in the cfgRacSecurity group with the config command
or use the objects in the iDRAC.Security group with the set command, and then use the sslcsrgen
command to generate the CSR. For more information, see the iDRAC8 RACADM Command Line
Interface Reference Guide available at ddell.com/idracmanuals.
Uploading server certificate
After generating a CSR, you can upload the signed SSL server certificate to the iDRAC firmware. iDRAC
must be reset to apply the certificate. iDRAC accepts only X509, Base 64 encoded Web server certificates.
SHA-2 certificates are also supported.
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