Enabling Trust for Proficy Historian for a Self-signed Certificate

About this task

At install time, a self-signed certificate is generated that you use with Historian web applications. A self-signed certificate is a certificate that is signed by itself rather than signed by a trusted authority. Therefore, a warning in the browser appears when connecting to a server that uses a self-signed certificate until it is permanently stored in your certificate store.

Procedure

In the Google Chrome browser go the site to which you want to connect.
A warning box appears to inform you that that the certificate is not trusted by the computer or browser.
Click the gray lock to the left of the URL, and then select the Details link. The Security Overview screen appears.
Click the gray lock to the left of the URL, and then select the Details link.
The Security Overview dialog appears.
Click the View certificate button.
The Certificate window appears with three tabs: General, Details, and Certification Path.
Select the Details tab and click the Copy to File button.
Follow the wizard to save the certificate to a local file.
Use the default format: DER encoded binary X.509 (.CER).
Right-click the .CER file, and select Install Certificate.
Select Trusted Root Certificate Authorities and click OK.

Note: Do not let the wizard select the store for you.

A Security Warning dialog may appear. If it does, disregard this dialog by clicking the Yes button to install the certificate.
Restart the browser and connect to the server.
Open the URL authenticated by the certificate.
If error messages do not appear, the certificate was successfully imported.