Enabling cryptographic authentication from the command line
Complete these steps to configure existing standalone clients to use the NIMSH communication protocol with SSL enabled from the command line.
- If OpenSSL is installed on the NIM client and NIMSH
is configured as the communication protocol, type the following command:
# nimclient -c
- If OpenSSL is not installed on the NIM client, complete
the following steps
- Install OpenSSL if not already installed. It can be installed from the base media using the installp command, geninstall command, or smitty command.
- Type the following command on the NIM client after OpenSSL
is installed:
# nimclient -c
- If OpenSSL is installed on the NIM alternate master,
type the following command to configure NIMSH as the communication
protocol:
# nimclient -c # nimconfig -c
- If the NIM client
running NIMSH with OpenSSL communication protocol wishes to communicate
with an alternate master running NIMSH with OpenSSL encryption, type
the following command on the NIM client where
<alternate_master>
is the NIM object name of the alternate_master:# nimclient -o get_cert -a master_name=
<alternate_master>