With secure connections becoming standard, knowing how to create, manage, and sign certificates and use them in Niagara is more important than ever. In this video series, we will explore what that all entails and how to deploy it on your projects.
Niagara 4.13 added a new HTML5 version of the Certificate Manager view. Not only does this give you the ability to manage certificates for your JACE and Supervisor from a browser, but it also adds additional features that we don't have in the traditional Certificate Manager view. In this video, we take a look at this new view and those new features.
An introduction to our video series on Certificates and using them in Niagara.
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In this video, we dig a little deeper into what a certificate looks like and Niagara's specific needs for them.
Learn how to generate a certificate in Niagara and then use a third-party certificate authority (GoDaddy) to sign your certificate.
In this video, we create our own certificate authority in Niagara and then sign our certificates using it. Finally, we install the CA into the trust store of our clients so that they know any certificate signed using it can be trusted.
In this video, we take a look at a lesser known use for certificates: client authentication.
The last video in the Certificates & Niagara series: we look at signed modules and how once you upgrade to Niagara 4.9, you will need to become very familiar with them.
If you are using a CA you created yourself to sign your Niagara certificates, you will very likely need to install that CA on a user’s iOS device at some point.
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Signing certificates with your own CA
Certificates & Niagara Series
Matt goes over the usage of the Certificate Wizard that was added in Niagara 4.9. It takes the normal certificate creation, signing, and configuration process and combines it all into a single window.