Importing server certificate into HPSIM 4.1 without generating an CSR

Seemueller, Andreas — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 07:47:29 GMT

Hello,

I have a problem importing a new certificate into our HPSIM 4.1 server.

The reason is a new certification authority in my company. This CA creates private and public key plus the certifcate and provides a whole PKCS#7 file.
It is not possible to handle PKCS#10 CSRs.

When I want to import a new certificate into HPSIM I have only the three steps possibilty:

1) Create CSR (and a new keypair)
2) Sign the CRS with the CA
3) Import the certificate as PKCS#7 container with server certificate and the whole certification chain.

How can I import the certifcate manually? Is there any possibilty to copy the keys somwhere to HPSIMs program directory instead of using the web interface?

A possible solution would be to use a self signed certificate but I would prefer a solution which is compliant to our corporate standards

Best regards

Andi

Re: Importing server certificate into HPSIM 4.1 without generating an CSR

Seemueller, Andreas — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 01:56:42 GMT

Hi,

I did some investigations on this thing. I found a directory called certstor in the config directory of the HP SIM installation.

There are two relevant files located:

- hp.keystore
- keyfile.3

For my understanding the file keyfile.3 contains the passphrase of the private key.
The hp.keystore contains just data. I can see the values of the certificate's attributes and some more.

I'm not sure how to edit this correctly (I think this will crash the whole installation).

Any ideas?

Is it possible in HPSIM 4.2 or 4.3 to import private key, public key and certificate?

Best regards

Andi

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