Network Deployment (Distributed operating systems), v8.0 > Secure applications and their environment
Secure communications
Overview
WAS provides several methods to secure communication between a server and a client.
Overview
WAS provides several methods for securing communication between a server and a client. New in this release are functions that ensure secure communication between a server and a client. These functions focus on certificate management, authentication, and ensuring trust among the application server, admin agent, and job manager. The new functions include:
- Enable a CA to request, query, and revoke certificates.
- Use chained personal certificates to allow a certificate to be signed with a longer life span.
- Revoke certificate authority certificates
Secure communications
- Secure communications using SSL
- Create an SSL configuration
- Create a CA client in SSL
- Delete a CA client in SSL
- View or modifying a CA client in SSL
- Create a keystore configuration for a preexisting keystore file
- Create a self-signed certificate
- Create a certificate authority request
- Extract a signer certificate from a personal certificate
- Retrive signers from a remote SSL port
- Add a signer certificate to a keystore
- Add a signer certificate to the default signers keystore
- Exchange signer certificates
- Configure certificate expiration monitoring
- Key management for cryptographic uses
- Create a key set configuration
- Create a key set group configuration
- Configure the web server plug-in for SSL