1. Developing and Deploying Siebel CRM
  2. Secure Sockets Layer Requirements: Overview

Secure Sockets Layer Requirements: Overview

Several Siebel Application components are hosted within application containers that need to trust each other and also need to be trusted by client browsers or other external servers that integrate with Siebel CRM. This requirement is accommodated by creating a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate.

There are three steps required to create a SSL certificate:

  • Generate a certificate request on the server.

  • Send the certificate to a certificate authority (CA) to approve the request and issue the certificate.

  • Import the certificate into a keystore used by the Siebel CRM components.

Note: For more information on SSL requirements, see Siebel Security Guide.