Configuring FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications with a Permanent Certificate
This step is necessary to do the following:
| • | Point to a central repository of keystores or truststores maintained by your organization |
| • | Configure the location of a permanent certificate, whether trusted or self-signed |
To configure FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications with a permanent trusted or self-signed certificate:
| 1. | Stop FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications. |
| 2. | Copy the keystore file that you just generated, keystore, to a location accessible from, but outside, the FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications installation, or point to a keystore maintained by your organization. |
| 3. | To reconfigure FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications to use this new keystore, navigate to the flexnet_agent_install_dir and click on the AgentConfiguration batch file. The FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications Configurator appears. |
| 4. | On the first pane of the Configurator (Step 1), change the value in the Broker Protocol field to SSL and select the Show Advanced Settings check box. |
| 5. | Click Next three times to advance to the fourth pane (Step 4). |
| 6. | Modify the SSL Keystore Location setting to match the location of the permanent keystore. |
| 7. | In the SSL Keystore Password field, enter and confirm the keystore password for the certificate. The default password for the bundled keystore is flexnet. |
| 8. | Click Finish. When the Configurator window closes, the site directory is re-created to reflect the new configuration settings. After the site directory is re-created, restart FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications. |
| 9. | If you have received a trusted certificate from a known certificate authority, the certificate does not have to be imported into a browser or Web service client implementation. If you are using a self-signed certificate, import the certificate into browsers as described in Obtaining a Trusted Certificate. With a browser, connect to: |
https://<host>:<port number>/flexnet
to verify that the certificate is trusted, where <host> is the fully qualified domain name of the machine on which FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications is running, and <port number> is the port number specified when the certificate was generated. You can now log in to FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications.