CentraSite Documentation : CentraSite Administrator’s Guide : Basic Operations : Configuring Secure Communication Between Components : Secure Communications with CentraSite for Synchronous Deployment : Roadmap for Configuring SSL
Roadmap for Configuring SSL
 
Creating Keys and Certificates
Creating a Keystore and Truststore
Obtaining the Certificates and Keys of the webMethods Mediator
The following table provides a high-level roadmap for configuring SSL on CentraSite.
Task
Activities
Notes
Create CentraSite keys and certificates
*Generate a public key/private key pair.
*Generate a certificate signing request (CSR) and send to the certificate authority (CA) for signing.
*Receive validated certificate from the CA.
*Import signed certificate into a keystore.
Required for one-way and two-way SSL connections.
Refer to the documentation for Java keytool or your certificate management tool.
Create keystore and truststore for CentraSite
*Create a keystore and import the signed certificate and private key.
*Create a truststore and import the certificate of the signing CA.
*Store the keystore and truststore in a secure CentraSite certificates directory.
Important:  
If you use a Java keytool to create the keystore, you cannot import an existing private key. You can use other tools such as OpenSSL or Portecle.
Required for one-way and two-way SSL connections.
Refer to the documentation for your certificate management tool.
Obtain certificates of webMethods Mediator
Use the CentraSite truststore to save:
*Signed certificate of the Mediator.
*Signed certificate of the CA for the Mediator's SSL certificate.
Required for one-way and two-way SSL connections.
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