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USER’S GUIDE

Battery Management System

119

Creating and Installing Digital Certificates

Purpose

For network communication that requires a higher level of security than

password encryption, the Web interface of the Battery Management System

supports the use of digital certificates with the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

protocol. Digital certificates can authenticate the Battery Management

System (the server) to the Web browser (the SSL client).

The sections that follow summarize the three methods of creating,

implementing, and using digital certificates. Read these sections to

determine the most appropriate method for your system.

• Method 1: Use the Battery Management System’s auto-generated

default certificate.

• Method 2: Use the APC Security Wizard to create a CA certificate and

a server certificate.

• Method 3: Use the APC Security Wizard to create a certificate-signing

request to be signed by the root certificate of an external Certificate

Authority and to create a server certificate.

You can also use Method 3 if your company or agency

operates its own Certificate Authority. Use the APC Security

Wizard in the same way, but use your own Certificate

Authority in place of a commercial Certificate Authority.

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