Obtain an SSL Certificate
It is necessary to obtain a valid certificate signed either by a well-known certificate authority, or by your own internal certificate authority.
Note: If you intend to generate a signed certificate using your own internal certificate authority, contact CTERA Support at http://www.ctera.com/support beforehand.
The SSL certificate can be either of the following:
A wildcard certificateA wildcard SSL certificate secures your website URL and an unlimited number of its subdomains. For example, a single wildcard certificate for *.ctera.com can secure both company01.ctera.com and company02.ctera.com, which may be for virtual portals company01 and company02.
A wildcard certificate is mandatory if you plan for your service to consist of more than one virtual portal.
A domain certificateA domain certificate secures a single domain or subdomain only. For example: company01.ctera.com.
This option is relevant if you are planning to provision a single virtual portal only.
Note: To obtain a self-signed certificate for testing and evaluation purposes only, contact CTERA Support at http://www.ctera.com/support and specify your CTERA Portal's DNS suffix see Note the Portal's DNS Suffix. CTERA will generate a self-signed certificate for your DNS suffix and provide you with a ZIP file that you can upload to your CTERA Portal environment.
CTERA Portal also supports certificates with Subject Alternative Names: SAN certificates. This option enables you to secure multiple domain names with a single certificate.