Certificate

The default certificate used by Longitude for the https Monitoring Console is self-signed. Some browsers will allow you to accept the certificate to view the Web UI, but Firefox 3.x and other browsers will not allow you to accept a self-signed certificate.

To work around this, you can configure the Longitude Web UI to use a certificate generated by a certificate authority trusted by Firefox. Details on how to configure Longitude to use a trusted SSL certificate are found in kb69: Using a trusted SSL certificate with Longitude's Web UI.

Longitude provides a self-signed certificate when it is installed for basic site encryption. Since this certificate is not signed by a trusted certificate authority, Firefox 3.x may not allow you to view the Longitude Management Console in SSL using the default certificate, and other browsers may display security warnings.

If you configure Heroix Longitude to use RSA Authentication , you will need to configure remote agents to allow connections from the Management Station by saving the Management Station's certificate file to the agents. Downloading the Management Station’s certificate using Internet Explorer will be unsuccessful if the Management Station is also configured to use HTTPS. In this case, trying to download the certificate results in an error like the following:

"Internet Explorer cannot download about.do?certificate=yes from
server.domain.net"