Blue Coat SG810 series, Installation Manual

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Section D: Configuring the SG810 Using Director
Registration
This section describes how to configure the SG810 using the Director Registration
feature.
Director Registration is a process that provides appliance authentication, and
allows Blue Coat devices to verify each other without exchanging passwords over
the network. Director registration establishes a secure administrative session with
the SG810 and authenticates the SG appliance to the Director as an SSL client.
Upon authentication, it allows you to control access to the SG810 through the
Director. To complete the registration process, both the SG810 and the Director
need to authenticate each other.
If you have Internet connectivity, an appliance certificate is automatically fetched
by the SG810, and no human intervention is required. In other cases, if the
Internet connection is delayed or if you do not have Internet access, you might
have to manually initiate the process of obtaining an appliance certificate. For
details on manually obtaining an appliance certificate refer to the
Blue Coat
ProxySG Configuration and Management Guide ( Volume 5: Advanced Networking,
Chapter 6: Authenticating a ProxySG).
If the SG appliance does not have an appliance certificate, you must configure a
registration password on the Director and enter the same password when
configuring the SG appliance to confirm their identities before exchanging public
keys. For details on setting a registration password, refer to
Blue Coat Director
Configuration and Management Guide .
Note: Director Registration feature is only supported on the SG510
Director.