Installing SSL Self-Signed Certificate

This section describes the necessary steps for installing SSL self-signed certificate. This procedure is required when you are using Self-signed Certificate to secure your communication, and you try to connect to the Control Service from a remote machine in order to open the Overview page.

Installing self-signed certificate

1. On the remote machine, open Internet Explorer. On the Address box, enter the Control Service Host Name and Port No. as follows: https://host_name:port_no/start_page.aspx

   Note: You can not use here the IP address of the Control Service.

   A Security Alert appears, asking you whether you want to view the certificate.

2. Click the View Certificate button.

   The Certificate dialog appears:

   

3. To locally install the certificate, click the Install Certificate button.

   The Certificate Import Wizard appears:

   

4. Click Next. The Certificate Store page appears:

   

5. Select the Place all certificates in the following store option button, and click the Browse button.

   The Select Certificate Store dialog appears:

   

6. Select the Trusted Root Certification Authorities store, and click OK.

   The Completing the Certificate Import Wizard page appears:

   

7. Click Finish to complete the certificate import.

   A confirmation message appears asking you to confirm the certificate installation.

8. Click Yes. A message appears, informing you of the import success:

   

9. Click OK to close the message. Then, on the Certificate dialog click OK to close it.

   You can now connect to the Control Service machine and open the Overview page.