Extracting the CA Certificate using OpenSSL

You can extract the CA certificate using OpenSSL.

Procedure

1. To create a CA certificate, execute the following command:

   openssl s_client -connect your.dsm.name.com:8443 –showcerts

   The command output appears on the screen. The second block of base-64 encoded text (between the “-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----“ and the “-----END CERTIFICATE -----“) is the certificate of interest.

2. Copy the certificate text into the 1.2.3.4_CA.pem file.

3. Copy the 1.2.3.4_CA.pem file to CommServe machine.

What To Do Next

Testing the CA Certificate