
Lantronix
SM24TBT2DPA and SM24TBT2DPB Web User Guide
2-5.1.4 HTTPS Configuration
This page lets you configure secure HTTP. You can configure the HTTPS settings and maintain the current
certificate on the switch.
To configure Authentication Method via the web UI:
1. Specify the Certificate operation.
2. Specify the Certificate pass phrase.
3. Select the upload method.
4. Choose a filename to upload.
5. Click
Apply
.
Figure 2-4.1.3: HTTPS Configuration page
Parameter descriptions:
Certificate Maintain
: The operation of certificate maintenance. Possible operations are:
Upload
: Upload a certificate PEM file. Possible methods are: Web Browser or URL.
Generate
: Generate a new self-signed RSA certificate.
Certificate Pass Phrase
: Enter the pass phrase in this field if your uploading certificate is protected by a
specific passphrase.
Certificate Upload
: Upload a certificate PEM file into the switch. The file should contain the certificate and
private key together. If you have two separated files for saving certificate and private key. Use the Linux
cat command to combine them into a single PEM file. For example, cat my.cert my.key > my.pem.
Note that the RSA certificate is recommended since most of the new browser versions have removed
support for DSA in certificates (e.g. Firefox v37 and Chrome v39).
Possible methods are:
Web Browser
: Upload a certificate via Web browser.
URL
: Upload a certificate via URL, the supported protocols are HTTP, HTTPS, TFTP and FTP.
The URL format is <protocol>://[<username>[:<password>]@]< host>[:<port>][/<path>]/<file_name>.
For example, tftp://10.10.10.10/new_image_path/new_image.dat,
http://username:[email protected]:80/new_image_path/new_image.dat.
A valid file name is a text string drawn from alphabet (A-Za-z), digits (0-9), dot (.), hyphen (-), under
score(_). The maximum length is 63 and hyphen must not be first character. The file name content that
only contains '.' is not allowed.
File Upload
: Click the
Choose
File
button and browse to and select the certificate file.
URL
: Enter the URL of the file to be uploaded; only displays if URL is selected as the Certificate Upload
method.