Import a certificate so that IBM® Connections
and WebSphere® Portal can communicate over Secure Socket Layer
(SSL).
About this task
In order for WebSphere Portal to communicate with IBM Connections over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), the WebSphere Portal server must trust the signer of the SSL certificate
for IBM Connections. This setting might be default in
your WebSphere infrastructure if you use SSL certificates that are issued by a commonly recognized
authority. If you use self-signed certificates, the default certificate or a signer that is not
recognized by your WebSphere Portal server, you must import the
SSL certificate from IBM Connections to your WebSphere Portal server.Procedure
Import the SSL keys into the Portal server as follows:
- Log in to the WebSphere Application
Server Integrated Solutions
Console.
- Go to .
- Add the certificates to the appropriate truststore as configured in SSL Configurations. To view
the SSL configuration and determine the appropriate truststore, go to For example, in a stand-alone deployment you go to for adding certificates. If NodeDefaultSSL
Settings points to 'CellDefaultTrustStore', you add a certificate
to 'CellDefaultTrustStore'.
Note: In a clustered deployment, add certificates
for all Portal nodes to the Connections nodes, and add certificates for the Connections nodes to the
Portal nodes.
- Click Retrieve from port.
- Enter the host and SSL port that is used by your Connections server. The default SSL port is 443. Give the alias a name, for example,
Connections. For example:
Host: connections.example.com
Port: 443
Alias: connections
- Click Retrieve signer information.
- Click OK.
- Click Save.