Receiving a signed certificate from the CA

To successfully receive a signed certificate from the Certificate Authority, the trusted root and intermediate root certificates from the certificate must be installed in the truststore on the server IBM® WebSphere® Application Server.

Before you begin

Request a signed certificate from the Certificate Authority by generating a certificate request and sending the file to the CA. The CA will respond by issuing a new certificate and sending it to you for apply to the server.

Procedure

  1. When you receive the signed certificate file form the CA, copy it to a temporary location on the WebSphere server where you want to apply it.
  2. Log in to the Sametime® System Console.
  3. In the navigation tree, click Security > SSL certificate and key management.
  4. In the "Related Items" section, click Key stores and certificates.
  5. In the Key stores and certificates window, select the appropriate keystore.
    • In a cell configuration, select CellDefaultKeyStore.
    • In a node configuration, select NodeDefaultKeyStore.

    Select a keystore.
  6. In the "Additional Properties" section, click Personal certificates.
  7. At the beginning of the personal certificates table, click Receive from certificate authority.
  8. In the dialog box, use the Certificate file name field to provide the absolute path to the file of the certificate signed by the CA.

    Leave the Data type field set to Base64-encoded ASCII data.

  9. Click Apply, and then click OK to close the dialog box.
  10. In the personal certificates table, verify that the new certificate now appears.
  11. In the Messages box at the beginning of the page, click Save to update the master configuration.