How to generate CA Certificate CSR file for SnapCenter

• The article covers how to generate signed SSL certificates using Microsoft Certreq
• This article provides steps to:
  • Generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) and
  • Import the certificate that can be obtained from a Certificate Authority (CA) using the generated CSR
• The process outlined ensures that the certificate has a private key associated with it. 

• The Microsoft Certreq tool is available by default on a Windows Server 2008 R2 system. So, CSR can be generated.

Note: The tool uses a configuration file to generate a certificate request.