Overview
A digital certificate is an electronic password that allows you to securely exchange documents. In addition to exchanging of documents, certificates also lets you to identify the interaction between a user to user, a user to a machine, and a machine to another machine .
webMethods ActiveTransfer Server uses SSL certificate to communicate between ActiveTransfer Server and ActiveTransfer Gateway.
ActiveTransfer Server allows you to use the user-certificate mapping to validate a client login based on the client certificate, and to fetch the user details associated with the certificate.
Important:
In ActiveTransfer versions 10.7 and lower, you must configure the certificate path in the asset configuration. Now, ActiveTransfer supports a new way of configuring certificates in assets such as actions, listeners, and virtual folders. You must now associate the certificate with an asset using the certificate alias of the respective certificate.
For more information on configuring certificates, refer to the respective asset configuration sections.