Check Out System Certificates

To export a system certificate, you must check out the certificate. This procedure exports only the public certificate, not the private key, and provides you with a public certificate to send to a trading partner.

1. Choose one:
   • If you use Sterling B2B Integrator, from the Administration Menu, select Trading Partner > Digital Certificates > System.
   • If you use the AS2 Edition, from the AS2 Administration menu, select Certificates.
2. Using either Search or List, locate the system certificate you want to check out.
3. Next to the system certificate you want to check out, click check out.
4. In the Check Out System Certificate dialog box, select the certificate format and then click Go!:
   • PKCS12 – This option formats the digital certificate as a PKCS12 file. You also have the option of entering a Private Key Password and a Key Store Password.
   • BASE64 – This option uses BASE64 encoding on the standard DER certificate.
   • DER – This standard format for digital certificates is accepted by most applications.
5. In the File Download dialog box, click Save.
6. In the Save As dialog box, select the location where you want to save the certificate, and then click Save.
   The option to open the certificate is not supported. You must open the certificate within the operating system. If you receive the error message, This is an invalid Security Certificate file, open the file in a text editor and delete any blank lines before -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----. Save the edited file and then try to open the file.
7. Click Close In the Check Out System Certificate dialog box.
   The System Certificate page is displayed.