Wireless Access Point
244 Configuring the Wireless AP
8. HTTPS (X.509) Certificate
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Figure 139. HTTPS (X.509) Certificate
a. Import Xirrus Authority into Browser: This feature imports the
Xirrus Certificate Authority (CA) into your browser (for a discussion,
please see “Certificates and Connecting Securely to the WMI” on
page 228). Click the link (xirrus-ca.crt), and then click Open to view
or install the current Xirrus CA certificate. Click Install Certificate to
start your browser’s Certificate Install Wizard. We recommend that
you use this process to install Xirrus as a root authority in your
browser.
When you assign a Host Name to your AP using the Express Setup
window, then the next time you reboot the AP (or restart the HTTPS
ArrayOS releases 6.5 and above only support 2048-bit certificates, while
previous releases only support 1024-bit certificates. When ArrayOS is
upgraded to 6.5 or above, a new self-signed certificate will be automatically
generated.
If you have imported a previous (pre-Release 6.5 version) Xirrus CA-signed
certificate into your browser, the trusted Xirrus CA needs to be updated.
Delete the current Xirrus CA in the browser. Upgrade the AP to release 6.5
or above and then download the new xirrus-ca.crt file and import it into the
browser as a trusted CA, as explained below.
If you are using a certificate signed by an external CA, its use is not
impacted in any way by this change.
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