IBM FileNet P8, Version 5.2.1            

Obtaining a client SSL certificate

You must obtain the client certificate to install in the Content Platform Engine truststore. You need either a self-signed certificate or a certificate that is signed by an external third-party certificate authority (CA). You do not need to deploy both types of certificates.

About this task

If the SSL certificate at the destination server was issued by a certificate authority, then you can obtain a root client certificate directly from the website of this certificate authority. Use this method for devices that are outside your corporate network, such as an OpenStack storage device.

If the service provider that hosts this service updates the certificate on their systems, the configured Content Platform Engine connection still works as long as the root certificate is the same.

Root certificates for the major certificate authorities are already present in the Java™ virtual machines that are used by the various application servers that Content Platform Engine supports. If the device uses a certificate from one of these certificate authorities, you might not need to configure any additional settings.



Last updated: October 2015
p8pcc355.htm

© Copyright IBM Corporation 2015.