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1.23 Securing the Connection between Viewpoint and MWS

Adaptive Computing strongly recommends using Viewpoint on a secure channel (SSL). See 1.24 Configuring Viewpoint to Use SSL .

Optionally, and depending on your system requirements, you can secure the connection between Viewpoint and MWS.

This topic explains how secure the connection between Viewpoint and MWS.

The steps in this topic must be performed before you set up the connection to MWS.

1.23.1 Secure the Connection between Viewpoint and MWS

Do the following:

Configure the MWS Server for HTTPS. See Securing Client Connections to MWS in the Moab Web Services Reference Guide for more information.
Import the MWS Server Certificate.
If the MWS server is using a certificate signed by a certificate authority, skip this step.
Import the MWS server certificate by running the following command on the Viewpoint server:
```
[root]# openssl s_client -showcerts -connect <hostname>:<secure_port> < /dev/null 2> /dev/null |
```
```
    sed -n -e '/-BEGIN CERTIFICATE-/,/-END CERTIFICATE-/p' \
```
```
    >> $(python -m requests.certs)
```
Where <hostname> is the MWS host name and <secure_port> is the secured port number defined in the certificate.
Proceed with instructions to set up the connection to MWS (see 1.2 Basic Configuration Page), noting that:
- you must use the full secure URL for MWS. For example: https://mws.example.com:8443
- the host name must match the Common Name (CN) of the MWS server certificate.
- the Viewpoint server must be able to resolve the host name using /etc/hosts or DNS.