Symantec Access Management

Hi Team,

I'm currently enabling SSL with different directory server. I wanted to understand exactly what are the certificates involved in that, lets have an example.

When we configure Policy server to communicate with AD over SSL, we require two certs, they are 1) Root Cert and 2) Server Cert.

Can anyone explain me what are these certs and how to differentiate between them?

Regards,

Rahul.

Hello Rahul, Even if the Siteminder documentation stands that you need both certificates for SiteMinder Connections over SSL only the CA root cert in necessary in the certificate database https://support.ca.com/cadocs/0/CA%20SiteMinder%20r12%20SP3-ENU/Bookshelf_Files/HTML/idocs/796963.html We do not need to add the server certificate. A documentation bug has been filled and documentation will be fixed and a technical document has been published. https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/redirArticles?reqPage=search&searchID=TEC612511 Hope it helps, Julien.

Thanks for the KB Julien.