Select a Certificate Management Option

Select one of the following Setup Assistant re-run tasks for certificate management.

Manage server certificates

CIC Servers in multiple CIC Server environments, for example, a Switchover pair , require identical Server Group certificate and private keys to successfully connect to remote subsystems.

Select this option if you have a multiple CIC Server environment and you have not yet fulfilled this requirement:

• Select the appropriate certificate management option for this CIC Server.
• If appropriate, follow the procedure to securely copy the Server Group certificate and private key files from an existing CIC Server to this CIC Server .

Manage certificate digests

Starting with CIC 2016 R4, CIC can generate certificates using the 256-bit version of the SHA-2 signature digest. SHA-256 is more collision-resistant than SHA-1, which makes it harder for attackers to forge a certificate that has a SHA-256 signature digest. CIC continues to use SHA-1 by default, however, new and upgrade 2016 R4 or later installations can choose to use SHA-256.  For more information, see the PureConnect Security Features Technical Reference in the PureConnect Documentation Library.

Select this option to change the signature digest algorithm to sign the certificates in your CIC system.