This email is a request for your assistance to use Self Signed SSL certificates on the OPERA PMS/ORS servers. This certificate will replace the existing trustwave certificates which were previously provided by us and it will be expiry soon.
To allow users to connect to OPERA via their browser using https:// (Pages 3-4 of SELF SIGNED SSL IMPLEMENTATION ) we used to be able to use these ‘internal’ server based certificates, signed by external third part Certificate Authority, Trustwave. We would then configure the Apache webserver, via the Oappcfged.exe, to run over https (port 443) by default. These certificates, and the type of certificate, will no longer be valid as of the end of October 2015 (this year).
The attached document details our proposed method of replacing these certificates with Self Signed SSL certificates. A wizard was provided, that needs to be run on each OPERA application server. The wizard needs to be run as the Administrator, or with Admin rights. The certificate will be generated and signed technically by the server itself, and then a copy of the certificate needs to be applied/distributed out to each user workstation/client that needs to connect to the OPERA application server.