Importing trusted SSL certificates for the web console

By default, the installer creates self-signed SSL certificates when you choose to enable HTTPS. You can also import an SSL certificate signed by a certificate authority.

Before you begin

Ensure that you have the default administrative user password. If you have forgotten the password, you can reset it. For more information, see Resetting the password for the default administrative user.

Procedure

To import a certificate signed by a certificate authority:

  1. Download a valid signed certificate to your server.
  2. Stop Data Studio web console.
    • On Linux and UNIX: From the installation directory, run the command stop.sh.
    • On Windows: From the Start menu, click All Programs > IBM Data Studio > IBM Data Studio web console V3.1 > Stop Web Console Server.
  3. Using the command line, run this command from the bin subdirectory of the installation directory.
    • On Linux and UNIX: importSSLcert.sh path_to_certificate/certificate_file_name
    • On Windows: importSSLcert.bat path_to_certificate\certificate_file_name

    Where path_to_certificate is the complete path to the directory where the certificate file is stored, and certificate_file_name is the name of the certificate file provided by your certificate authority.

  4. Enter the default administrative user password when prompted.
  5. Start Data Studio web console.
    • On Linux and UNIX: From the installation directory, run the command start.sh.
    • On Windows: From the Start menu, click All Programs > IBM Data Studio > IBM data Studio web console V3.1 > Start Web Console Server.
  6. Verify that you can log in to the web console with the secure URL.
    https://IP_address:port_number/datatools/console

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