DRAC 5 Goddaddy.com wildcard certificate

Question

I have a godaddy.com wildcard certificate (.crt) file for *.mycompany.com that I am trying to upload to my DRAC 5 on a PE2900. I keep getting an error "Attempted to upload an invalid certificate." I have successfully installed this cert on IIS 6 without a problem by installing two certs as described by this on the godaddy.com website:

Before you install your issued SSL certificate you must install the intermediate certificate on your Web server. An intermediate certificate is a subordinate certificate issued by the trusted root specifically to issue end-entity server certificates. The result is a chained chain that begins at the trusted root CA, runs through the intermediate and ends with the SSL certificate issued to you. Such certificates are called chained root certificates. The usage of an intermediate certificate thus provides an added level of security as the CA does not need to issue certificates directly from the CA root certificate.

How do I get a wildcard cert with a subordinate cert to work on my DRAC 5?

pmzandbergen · Answer

Same question for me... DRAC/MC in my case. I've a wildcart certificate and would like to use it on all KVM/DRAC modules.

dprezioso · Answer

I also need to load an intermediate certificate, but I am not looking to use a wildcard cert, just a normal SSL cert that needs an intermediate. I have tried putting both the server cert and the intermediate cert in a single file and uploading, but that just gets me the message about an invalid certificate file.

Most web servers seem to have a way to load the intermediate certificate, and I have used other software that allows you to put the whole chain in a single file like I was trying to do, but I can't figure out how to do that on the DRAC 5.

Has anyone figured out how to load intermediate certificates on a DRAC 5?

Thanks

Don

PowerEdge Hardware General

DRAC 5 Goddaddy.com wildcard certificate

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