CA signed SSL Certificate Configuration for your NetFlow and sFlow Analyzer

Posted in General, NetFlow, NetFlow Analyzer, Scrutinizer, Security, sFlow on January 4th, 2011 by Danny
CA signed SSL Certificate Configuration for your NetFlow and sFlow Analyzer

In this blog I want to talk about how to configure SSL for our NetFlow and sFlow Analyzer web authentication.  The standard procedure to configuring SSL for HTTPS redirection has three basic steps.

  1. Generating SSL files.
  2. Installing a CA signed certificate.
  3. Configuring Apache to use SSL.

A. GENERATING SSL FILES

Three files are generated as a result of this process: the private key(.key), the Certificate Signing Request (.csr), and the public key or SSL certificate (crt). The private key contains encrypted information that identifies an institution or company. The Certificate Signing request contains the information found in the private key and a public key to be signed by a Certificate Authority (CA). Read more »

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Setting up SSL for Scrutinizer v7

Posted in Scrutinizer on November 16th, 2009 by Scottr
Setting up SSL for Scrutinizer v7

I have been receiving a number of calls lately with requests to enable SSL on Scrutinizer v7.

Enabling SSL on Scrutinizer v7 has been made much easier than in past releases of Scrutinzer. You no longer need to download OpenSSL and manually configure the SSL Key and certificate, or set up the apache config files.

You must first contact Technical Support at Plixer International, to obtain the Scrutinizer v7 – SSL installshield.

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Scott Robertson
Sr. Solutions Engineer

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