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Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide 3-21
Publication Number: 53-0000518-09
Configuring for the SSL Protocol
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3. Enter the requested information:
Your CA might require specific codes for Country, State or Province, Locality, Organization, and
Organizational Unit names. Make sure that your spelling is correct and matches the CA
requirements. If the CA requires that the Common Name be specified as an FQDN, make sure that
the fully qualified domain name is set on the domain name server.
4. Enter this command to store the CSR:
5. Enter the requested information:
If you are set up for secure file copy protocol, you can select it; otherwise, select ftp. Enter the IP
address of the switch on which you generated the CSR. Enter the remote directory name of the FTP
server to which the CSR is to be sent. Enter your account name and password on the server.
Obtaining Certificates
Check the instructions on the CA Web site; then, perform this procedure for each switch:
1. Generate and store the CSR as described in “Generating and Storing a CSR” on page 3-20.
2. Open a Web browser window on the management workstation and go to the CA Web site. Follow
the instructions to request a certificate. Locate the area in the request form into which you are to
paste the CSR.
3. Through a telnet window, connect to the switch and log in as admin.
4. Enter this command:
The contents of the CSR is displayed.
5. Locate the section that begins with “BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST” and ends with “END
CERTIFICATE REQUEST”.
Country Name (2 letter code, eg, US):US
State or Province Name (full name, eg, California):California
Locality Name (eg, city name):San Jose
Organization Name (eg, company name):Brocade
Organizational Unit Name (eg, department name):Eng
Common Name (Fully qualified Domain Name, or IP address): 192.1.2.3
Generating CSR, file name is: 192.1.2.3.csr
Done.
switch:admin> seccertutil export
Select protocol [ftp or scp]: ftp
Enter IP address: 192.1.2.3
Enter remote directory: path_to_remote_directory
Enter Login Name: your account
Enter Password: your password
Success: exported CSR.
switch:admin> seccertutil showcsr