Cisco Cisco TelePresence MCU 4510 Maintenance Manual
Subject The business to which the certificate has been issued:
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C Country where the business is registered
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ST State or province where the business is located
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L Locality or city where the business is located
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O Legal name of the business
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OU Organizational unit or department
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CN Certificate common name, or the domain name
Issuer
The issuer of the certificate. Where the certificate has been self-issued, these details are the same as for
Subject.
Subject.
Issued
Date on which the certificate was issued.
Expires
Date on which the certificate will expire.
Private
key
key
Your web browser uses the SSL certificate public key to encrypt the data that it sends back to the MCU.
The private key is used by the MCU to decrypt that data.
The private key is used by the MCU to decrypt that data.
The private key field is only present for the local certificate.
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Transitioning to Certificate-Based Security
Certificate-based security methods carry a risk of inadvertently blocking all login access to the MCU. (If problems
occur with the client certificate or the trust store, you will need to fall back to HTTP. If you cannot fall back — because
HTTP is disabled or because HTTP to HTTPS redirection is set — then all access methods will be blocked.) We
strongly recommend that you follow the procedure below when implementing certificate-based security:
occur with the client certificate or the trust store, you will need to fall back to HTTP. If you cannot fall back — because
HTTP is disabled or because HTTP to HTTPS redirection is set — then all access methods will be blocked.) We
strongly recommend that you follow the procedure below when implementing certificate-based security:
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Enabling Client Certificates and Certificate Login (HTTPS Connections)
To transition access handling for HTTPS connections from standard, password-based access to required client
certificate validation and optionally to allow certificate-based login, do the following:
certificate validation and optionally to allow certificate-based login, do the following:
1.
Ensure that an appropriate HTTPS trust store is installed on the MCU (Network > SSL certificates) and that
the web browser(s) to be used to access the MCU are configured with a valid client certificate.
the web browser(s) to be used to access the MCU are configured with a valid client certificate.
2.
Go to Network > Services and enable both HTTP and HTTPS.
3.
Go to Settings > Security and disable Redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS (uncheck the check box). This
ensures that you can fall back to HTTP if problems occur.
ensures that you can fall back to HTTP if problems occur.
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