Operating Systems: i5/OS
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Manage certificate expiration settings

 

Use this page to configure the certificate expiration monitor.

To view this administrative console page, click Security > SSL certificate and key management > Manage certificate expiration. Attention: To see the changes to the Expiration checking fields, click Apply.

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Configuration tab

Expiration notification threshold

Specifies a threshold number of days during which the application warns specified individuals that a certificate is about to expire. For example, when the expiration monitor is run and the threshold is 30 days, if the current date is 30 days or less from the certificate expiration date, the certificate is flagged for notification. The application server can be configured to provide certification expiration notification through either e-mail or the message log file.

Data type: Integer
Default: 30 days

Expiration check notification

Specifies the notification type (such as e-mail or System Out) when an expiration monitor runs.

Default:  

Automatically replace expiring self-signed certificates

Specifies a new self-signed certificate be generated using the same certificate information if the expiration notification threshold is reached. The old certificate is replaced and uses the same alias. All old signers are managed by the key store configuration are also replaced. The system only replaces self-signed certificates.

Default: Enabled

Delete expiring certificates and signers after replacement

Specifies whether to completely remove old, self-signed certificates from the key store during a replace operation or leave them there under a renamed alias. If an old certificate is not deleted, the system renames the alias so that the new certificate can use the old alias, which might be referenced elsewhere in the configuration.

Default: Enabled

Enable checking

Specifies the certificate monitor is active and will run as scheduled.

Scheduled time of day to check for expired certificates

Scheduled time that the system checks for expired certificates.

You can type the scheduled time in hours and minutes, specify either A.M. or P.M., or 24-hour.

Data type Integer
Default: 0, 0
Range: 1–12, 0–59

Check by calendar

Indicates that you want to schedule a specific day of the week on which the expiration monitor runs. For example, it might run on Sunday.

Default: Disabled

Weekday

Specifies the day of the week on which the expiration monitor runs if Check on a specific day is selected.

Default: Sunday
Range: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Repeat interval

Period of time between each schedule time to check for expired certificates or the interval between schedule checks.

Default: Daily
Range: Daily, Weekly

Check by number of days

Specifies that you want to schedule a specific number of days between each run of the expiration monitor. The day of the week on which this occurs is not counted. For example, if you set the interval to check for expired certificates every seven days, the expiration monitor runs on day eight.

Default: Disabled

Next start date

Specifies the date for the next scheduled check. This allows the deployment manager to be stopped and restarted without resetting the date.




 

Related tasks


Creating a Secure Sockets Layer configuration

 

Related Reference

SSL certificate and key management Manage endpoint security configurations Notifications

 

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