This article provides information about how to configure your IT Management Suite (ITMS) 7.5 environment to enable access using HTTPS (HTTP over SSL). The instructions in this document are valid for the ITMS 7.5 platform.
Hi Ludovic,
Thank you for the review comments.
For point 1, we are trying to incorporate the flowcharts along with the hyperlinks in this Connect article. This seems to be a bit of a problem right now. Will work on this, and keep you posted on the updates.
For point 2, I've made the changes in table 2 of page 5.
Thank you!
Very interesting article, thanks for that.
I have a couple of notes however:
1) I know it's not always easy but providing the article content inside the Connect web-page is really much nicer for the users. I personally am a Free and Open Source Software advocate and forcing our users to download a file to read it out of the site is something that I think is unecessary.
2) There's an important correction to add to your document:
Page 5, table 2 reads: "Certificate is obtained by obtaining the private key from the commercial certification authority."
This is not correct. The process of obtaining an X509 Certificate from a CA such as GeoTrust, Symantec or else is to create a private key on a secure system (at the customer / user location) and to generate a Certificate Signing Request [1] and then send it to the CA.
The CA will then verify that you are entitled to create a certificate for the requested CN and generate the Public Key and make it available to you.
A private key should never ever be sent out to a public CA. Some offer to generate the private key for you but this is bad practice.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_signing_request