Enable the external certificate authority (CA) certificate

Configure each computer where an IBM® Cognos® Analytics with Watson component is installed to use the certificate authority (CA).

Before you begin

Ensure that the following steps were completed:

  1. Delete the existing keystore
  2. Import the existing certificate authority (CA) certificates

About this task

The keystore locations and passwords in IBM Cognos Configuration must match the ones that you typed in ThirdPartyCertificateTool.

Procedure

  1. Open IBM Cognos Configuration as an administrator.
  2. In the Explorer window, under Security > Cryptography, click Cognos.
  3. Under Certificate Authority settings, click the Use third party CA property, and set its Value to True.
  4. For the Key store password property, enter the password that you used for the crypto key.
  5. Click File > Save to save the configuration.
  6. Restart your IBM Cognos services.