Certificate for Scout Keep Alive service

As the eLux® devices and the Scout Keep Alive service communicate via HTTPS, for the installation of the Scout Keep Alive service, a valid SSL certificate for server authentication is required which is bound to port 22124 by default.

As soon as a certificate becomes invalid, you need to bind a new certificate to the port to keep the Scout Keep Alive service running. To do so, on the system the Statistics Service is running on, use the netsh.exe tool of the Windows command-line interface.

Note:

If the computer has more than one network adapter, the certificate must be bound to all IP addresses.

Viewing the current SSL certificate bindings

  1. Launch the command-line interface.
  2. Use the following command: netsh.exe http show sslcert

All ports with certificate bindings are shown including the relevant information.

Deleting an SSL certificate from a port

  1. Launch the command-line interface.
  2. Use the netsh.exe tool as shown in the following example: netsh.exe http delete sslcert ipport=<IP address of host>:22124

Viewing the thumbprints of certificates

Note:

Thumbprint corresponds to the certificate hash value.

  1. Launch the Powershell. Note that the command is not supported by the normal command-line interface (cmd).
  2. Use the following command depending on the certificate store: dir cert:LocalMachineMy

For all certificates available in the Microsoft Management Console, the thumbprints are shown under Local ComputerPersonal (with and without binding).

Binding a new SSL certificate to a port

  1. Launch the command-line interface.
  2. Use the netsh.exe tool with the following command: netsh.exe http add sslcert ipport=0.0.0.0:22124 certhash=<*thumbprint of your certificate*> appid={957ba029-e2a1-4a13-b426-645a5e3802e2}

The ipport parameter specifies the IP address and port.

The certhash parameter specifies the thumbprint of the certificate.

The appid parameter is the ID of the Scout Keep Alive service and must not be changed.

Certificate for Scout Keep Alive service