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Certificate Requests

OMi and other HPE BTO Software applications use certificates to identify themselves and communicate securely with each other. The data processing server acts as a certificate authority. It can issue the required certificates to other computers in your environment.

Each OMi gateway server needs certificates from the data processing server, and receives them automatically during the installation process. Other applications (for example Operations Connectors, HPE Operations Agents, SiteScope) also need certificates, and send certificate requests to the OMi server. The OMi server can begin to communicate securely with these applications only after they receive the certificates. If you grant a certificate request, the data processing server issues the certificates over the network to the computer that requested them.

The following options for handling certificate requests are available:

  • Grant or deny certificate requests manually

    You can view a list of the certificate requests that the data processing server has received, and decide whether to grant or deny each request individually.

  • Grant certificates automatically by IP address

    You can configure Operations Management to grant certificate requests automatically, based on the IP address that the certificate request originates from.

  • Grant or deny certificate requests using a script

    You can create a Groovy script, which grants or denies certificate requests according to your own criteria.

  • Deploy certificates manually

    You can generate certificates on the data processing server, and then transfer them to other computers on a USB flash drive, CD, or other portable media. This option is more secure because it avoids sending certificates over unencrypted network connections.