Generate certificates to access the failover web console

To establish a secure connection with the failover web console, you need certificates that are trusted by your browser. To learn more about certificates, see Certificates for the failover web console (explained).

You must install both a server and a user certificate on every computer that needs access to the failover web console.

You can create a server and a user certificate only from the computer that you selected as primary computer during the failover cluster configuration.

To generate certificates after you have configured the failover cluster:

1. From the primary computer's taskbar, right-click the Management Server Manager icon and select Configure failover management server. The Manage your configuration page opens.

2. Select Generate certificates and then select Continue.

3. On the Generate certificates page:

   • Create a user name

   • Create a password. The password must be between 6 and 32 characters long. You can use a combination of letters, numbers and any of the following characters ( ) * _ - .

   • Select a destination folder. The server and user certificates are exported there. If you do not select a destination folder, the certificates are exported to C:\Users\{user}\Documents.

4. Select Continue. The wizard creates a server certificate and a user certificate, and exports them to the selected destination. When the process is completed, install the created certificates, see Installing certificates.