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SSL Support

The PowerConnect Cloud web ui can be secured with SSL. An external web server must be configured to do the ssl offload. Follow the steps below relevant to your environment.

AWS

In AWS we can use an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) to perform the SSL offload and secure the PowerConnect web ui:

  1. Generate a SSL certificate using ACM or another certificate provider

  2. Create an ELB

    • Login to your AWS account

    • Browse to the EC2 service

    • In the menu on the left choose Load Balancers

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    • Click the Create Load Balancer button

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    • Click Create in the Application Load Balancer section

    • Give the ELB a name, choose HTTPs as the listener and pick which VPC and availability zones to create the ELB in

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    • Click Next

    • Choose the certificate you created earlier (either through ACM or by uploading) and the Security Policy (ELBSecurityPolicy-2016-08 is the default)

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    • Click Next

    • Create a new security group which allows inbound https traffic on port 443

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    • Click Next

    • Create a new Target Group

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    • Click Next

    • Add the PowerConnect Cloud instances to the registered targets using port 3000

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    • Click Review then Create and the infrastructure should then be provisioned

    • The PowerConnect web ui should now be available on https://<your-elb-address>