1. Security Guide
  2. Configuring TLS Encryption for a Siebel Enterprise or Siebel Server

Configuring TLS Encryption for a Siebel Enterprise or Siebel Server

This topic describes how to configure a Siebel Enterprise or Siebel Server to use TLS encryption and authentication for communications between Siebel Servers and the Web server (Siebel Application Interface), and between Siebel Servers. Configuring TLS for communications is optional.

This task is a step in Process of Configuring Secure Communications.

Configuring TLS communications between Siebel Servers and the Web server also requires that you configure the Siebel Application Interface to use TLS. When configuring TLS for Siebel Server and the Siebel Application Interface, you can also configure connection authentication for the relevant modules. In other words, when a module connects to another module, modules might be required to authenticate themselves against the other using third-party certificates.

Connection authentication scenarios are:

  • Siebel Server authenticates against the Web server.

  • Web server authenticates against the Siebel Server.

  • Siebel Server authenticates against another Siebel Server.

If you select the peer authentication option, mutual authentication is performed.

Configuring a Siebel Enterprise or Siebel Server to use TLS encryption involves the following tasks:

  1. Run the Siebel Management Console for the Siebel Enterprise or Siebel Server and select the appropriate option to deploy TLS.

    This task is described in Deploying TLS for Siebel Enterprise or Siebel Server.

  2. For each Application Object Manager that is to use TLS, set the Communication Type (CommType) parameter to TLS as appropriate.

    This task is described in Setting Additional Parameters for Siebel Server TLS.