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Create a Radware Alteon ADC machine

Create a Radware Alteon ADC machine so Certificate Manager - SaaS can discover the certificates assigned to the appliance's virtual services and provision certificates to them. Certificate Manager - SaaS connects to the appliance's REST API through a VSatellite.

Before you begin

  • The System Administrator, PKI Administrator, or Resource Owner role. If you have the Resource Owner role, you must own or belong to at least one team.
  • An active VSatellite that can reach the Radware Alteon ADC management address over HTTPS.
  • The hostname or IP address of the Radware Alteon ADC.
  • The port the Radware Alteon ADC REST API listens on, if it isn't 443.
  • A Radware Alteon ADC administrator account.

To create a Radware Alteon ADC machine

  1. Sign in to Certificate Manager - SaaS.
  2. Click Installations > Machines.
  3. Click New, and then select Radware Alteon ADC.
  4. On the Properties step, in Name, enter a name for the machine.
  5. For Owning Team, choose the team that owns the machine. System Administrators and PKI Administrators can choose any team. Resource Owners can choose only a team they own or belong to.

  6. For VSatellite, choose a VSatellite that can reach the machine. A VSatellite that's the primary of a high availability group shows its number of active replicas, and Certificate Manager - SaaS can run the machine's operations on any healthy VSatellite in the group.

  7. In Server Hostname, enter the hostname or IP address of the Radware Alteon ADC.

  8. (Optional) In Port, enter the port the REST API listens on. If you leave it empty, Certificate Manager - SaaS uses 443.

  9. For Credential Type, choose how to provide the credentials:

    • Enter Credentials to enter the credentials in the next step. This is the default.
    • Select Credentials to use shared credentials from a credential manager integration. Then, for Credential, choose the credential.

    Note

    Select Credentials requires the credential manager capability, which requires additional licensing. Without it, Credential shows No credentials are available. System Administrators and PKI Administrators can choose any credential. Resource Owners can choose only the credentials that belong to their teams.

  10. If you chose Enter Credentials, enter the Username and Password of the Radware Alteon ADC administrator account. If you chose Select Credentials, the stored account needs the same Radware Alteon ADC access.

    Note

    Certificate Manager - SaaS encrypts the credentials you enter and doesn't display them again. On the machine's Properties tab, they appear masked. To keep a stored credential when you edit the machine, leave its masked value unchanged. Keep your own secure record of the credentials in case you need them again.

  11. Click Test Access. After the connection succeeds, click Continue. The Discovery step opens.

    Note

    A successful test confirms that Certificate Manager - SaaS can reach the Radware Alteon ADC REST API and sign in with the credentials. It doesn't check what the account is allowed to change.

  12. (Optional) To skip certificates that have already expired, enable Exclude Expired Certificates.

    Discovery reads the server certificate assigned to each virtual service, along with its intermediate certificates. It exports the certificate and its private key from the Radware Alteon ADC. It skips a virtual service that has no server certificate, that uses a certificate group instead of a single certificate, or whose certificate or private key it can't export.

  13. (Optional) To discover certificates on a schedule, enable Schedule. For Repeat every, choose Day, Week, or Month, and then in At, enter the time. For Week, select the days of the week. For Month, enter the days in Day of month. Times are in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

  14. Click Continue. The Provisioning step opens.

  15. (Optional) To provision certificates on a schedule, enable Schedule. For Repeat every, choose Day, Week, or Month, and then in At, enter the time. For Week, select the days of the week. For Month, enter the days in Day of month. Times are in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

    Scheduled provisioning pushes only certificates that are queued for deployment, such as renewed certificates, so renewals install during the window you choose.

  16. Click Finish.

What's next?

After you create the machine, provision a certificate to it. You can also run discovery on the machine at any time to track the certificates on your Radware Alteon ADC.