Adding SSL certificates for the Cloud
Learn how to add SSL certificates for the Cloud.
About this task
Attention: If you want to use HTTPS to communicate with IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS),
you first must retrieve the certificate from the IBM Cloud Object Storage server. Then when you
create the cloud URL, you need to set the Certificate Alias to be the certificate alias you created
.
To automatically retrieve an IBM Cloud Object Storage CA, complete the following steps:
Procedure
Manually adding SSL certificates
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When manually uploading the trust of CA through a text file, select the Security menu in IBM Cloud Object Storage Manager and click certificate authority in the System Fingerprint field.
Copy all the text that is displayed in your web browser, including “-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----” and “-----END CERTIFICATE-----”. Paste the text into a simple text editor, and save it as a text file (for example, icos.pem), as shown in the following example:
Contents of the .pem file
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIF1DCCA7ygAwIBAgIQH4bSWUjefmHgSojBqPd86DANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQ0FADCB kTELMAkGA1UEBhMCVVMxETAPBgNVBAgMCElsbGlub2lzMRAwDgYDVQQHDAdDaGlj
...
IuSo89i55ct0+RL97GEgpQpfVIYgdefK3DNyA+IKgyS7nOntwoRjQ5MXgCWZUeNr LjF0nrBSux8=
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
Next, you must upload the certificate file to the TS7700 by using MI. Complete the following steps: