Import the certificate authority (CA) certificates
You must import the certificates from the external certificate authority (CA) into your IBM® Cognos® Analytics key store.
The import must be done on each computer where the following Cognos Analytics components are installed: Content Manager, the Application Tier Components, the gateway, and the client components such as Framework Manager, and other components if you use them.
Before you begin
On UNIX or Linux operating systems, ensure that you set a JAVA_HOME environment variable before you use the ThirdPartyCertificateTool.
On Microsoft
Windows installations, you can run the tool with the
-java:local
command to use the JRE that is provided with the installation, as shown
in the following example: ThirdPartyCertificateTool.bat -java:local -c -d ...
About this task
If you changed the Key store password in IBM Cognos Configuration, under , use the new password as the keystore_password when running the ThirdPartyCertificateTool commands below. The default password is NoPassWordSet.
Procedure
Results
The command reads the encryptCertificate.cer and ca.cer files in the install_location\bin directory and imports the certificates from both files into the CAMKeystore file in the install_location/configuration/certs directory using the specified password.
What to do next
You can now configure the Cognos Analytics components to use the CA certificates. For more information, see Enable the external certificate authority (CA).