Working with SSL Certificates

SSL certificates enable device or user identification, as well as secure communications.

RUCKUS Unleashed captive portal services and the web interface use an SSL certificate when establishing HTTPS connections.

The default SSL certificate that is installed on the RUCKUS Unleashed AP is self-signed and therefore not trusted by any web browser. This is the reason why the SSL security warnings are displayed when establishing an HTTPS connection to the RUCKUS Unleashed web interface.

To eliminate the security warnings, administrators may purchase a trusted SSL certificate from a public certificate authority (CA) and install it on the Master AP.

The basic certificate installation process is made up of the following steps:

  1. Generate a certificate signing request (CSR) with the required requester information.
  2. Submit the CSR to a public CA for signing.
  3. Receive a signed certificate from the CA.
  4. Import the signed certificate into RUCKUS Unleashed.

In this section:

  1. Generating a Certificate Signing Request
    If you do not have an existing SSL certificate, you must create a certificate signing request (CSR) file and send it to a certificate authority (CA) to purchase an SSL certificate.
  2. Creating a Certificate Request File
  3. Importing an SSL Certificate
  4. SSL Certificate Advanced Options
    The Advanced Options tab allows you to perform additional certificate management functions.
Parent topic: Administration Settings