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Obtaining a server certificate

Certificates can be obtained from one of the following:

Well-known Certificate Authority (CA)
Create a certificate request, then obtain and store a server certificate from one of the pre-defined (well-known) CAs. This procedure requires the least setup because the Host On-Demand key database files already include the root certificates of several CAs.

Unknown CA
Create a certificate request, then obtain a server certificate and a root certificate from a CA that does not have its root certificate already included in the database. Having obtained the certificates, you must store them in the key database files.

Self-signed
You can create a certificate and use it while you are waiting for a CA's certificate, which can take some time. If you think the self-signed certificate provides adequate security, you can use it permanently.

Host On-Demand provides Certificate Management, a graphical certificate management tool, for the following tasks:

This tool is supported for Windows, AIX, Linux (Intel platform), and zLinux.

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