Configuration
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Avira Security Management Center
Avira GmbH
IUM Frontend Settings
Activation of SSL server authentication:
Avira SMC supports signed SSL certificates for all its server applications, including
Avira IUM Server. Avira IUM Frontend, as client application, supports SSL server
authentication (more details on the SSL feature below).
5.7
SSL Certificates Management
SSL provides secure communication using data encryption and server/ client
authentication. This means that before any information is exchanged, the client
has to verify the true identity of the server and the server has to verify the true
identity of the client. Then the communication peers can start exchanging
encrypted information.
Avira SMC supports signed SSL certificates for all its server applications (Event
Manager, IUM Server, SMC Server). SMC Server comes with a new tool that
supports SSL certificate creation and deployment. The new SSL private keys and
signed certificates are then stored in the
SSL
directory in SMC Server.
All SMC clients (SMC Agent, IUM Frontend, SMC Frontend) support SSL server
authentication.
When you decide to create an individual certificate for your SMC Server and want
the clients to authenticate the Server:
1. Create a certificate sign request (CSR) using the
Certificate Creation Tool:
