A.2 Creating a New Certificate

You can use the Certificate Management Wizard to create the initial certificate if the Engine has not been started since Novell Storage Manager 3.1.1 was installed.You can also create another certificate if you need to change the default settings.

  1. Load the NSM Engine Configuration Utility by running nsmengine-config.

  2. In the console, enter C to start the Certificate Management Wizard.

  3. Select the settings you want, then press Enter.

    The Certificate Management Wizard prompts you to generate a new OpenSSL certificate using the default server name for the common name of the certificate. You can choose to use a different name for the common name of the certificate if you want.

    The Certificate Management Wizard generates a 2048-bit RSA private key and stores it as a .pem file in the Engine config directory. The details of the certificate are then displayed in the console.

  4. Start the NSM Engine, either through the Service Management submenu or at the console with the rcnsmengined start command.