Verifying a Certificate

The previous steps configure FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications Admin to accept HTTPS requests. You must now verify that you can log in to FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications Admin using HTTPS.

To verify a certificate:

1.

Because you generated your certificate yourself, import the trusted certificate (exported from the keystore) into a browser or Web service client implementation. In Internet Explorer, select Tools | Internet Options | Content | Certificates. In Firefox, select Edit | Preferences | Advanced | Security | View Certificates | Web Sites.

2.

Browse to the URL https://<hostname>:<port number>/flexnet, where:

a.

<hostname> is the fully qualified domain name for the host that you specified when you generated the keystore.

b.

<port number> is the HTTPS port number you configure.

3.

The login page for FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications Admin is displayed.

4.

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. 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 Admin 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 Admin.