ACM Registration and Certificate Usage Between NetMRI and NIOS

You can install a CA certificate to secure communications between the NetMRI appliance and the NIOS appliance. The best method is to export a certificate in NetMRI and import it to the NIOS appliance that performs the ACM Registration and runs the Tasks Dashboard.

1. Open the NetMRI Administrative Shell (connect by SSH to the appliance and enter the administrator name and password) and enter:

export cert
The system copies a NetMRI self-s igned certificate suitable for use with the NIOS host, netmri.crt, to the root directory of the NetMRI appliance.

2. Transport the file to a location accessible from your workstation's local file system.

3. Connect to the NIOS appliance as the administrator.

4. On the ACM Dashboard, click the gear icon and choose ACM Registration.

5. Enter the NetMRI appliance's IP address, and the admin account and password. If you are installing a certificate from NetMRI, proceed to Step 8.

6. If you do not wish to install a certificate, click Register. An ACM Registration message appears: "Connection cannot be validated without a certificate. This may lead to security issues unless connection to NetMRI is physically secured. Would you like to continue?"

7. Click Yes if you wish to operate ACM without a certificate. Otherwise, do the following:

8. Click the Enable Certificate Validation checkbox.

9. Click the Select button to browse for the certificate file.

10. Select the certificate file and click Open. The certificate Info fields add the information from the imported certificate.

11. Click Register. NetMRI registers with the NIOS appliance and the certificate is added to secure HTTPS communications between the hosts.