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Enable-HPERedfishCertificateAuthentication

Tue Jan 14, 2020 1:53 am

NAME Enable-HPERedfishCertificateAuthentication



SYNOPSIS

Enables SSL certificate authentication in the current PowerShell session.





SYNTAX

Enable-HPERedfishCertificateAuthentication [<CommonParameters>]





DESCRIPTION

The Enable-HPERedfishCertificateAuthentication cmdlet enables checking of SSL certificate when using

HPERedfishCmdlets. In a new PowerShell session, the SSL certificate checking is enabled by default. When

communicating using HTTPS protocol, the target device is checked for a valid certificate. If the certificate is

not present, then the connection is not made and the client does not send the HTTPS request to the target. This

certificate check can be disabled using Disable-HPERedfishCertificateAuthentication and can be enabled using

Enable-HPERedfishCertificateAuthentication.





PARAMETERS

<CommonParameters>

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug,

ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable,

OutBuffer, PipelineVariable, and OutVariable. For more information, see

about_CommonParameters (https:/go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113216).



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NOTES





Disabling the certificate check should be used until a valid certificate has been installed on the device

being connected to. Installing valid certificates that can be verified gives and extra level of network

security.



-------------------------- EXAMPLE 1 --------------------------



PS C:\\>Enable-HPERedfishCertificateAuthentication



This command enables the server certificate authentication, and sets the session level flag to TRUE. The scope of

the session level flag is limited to this session of PowerShell. Default value of session level is flag TRUE.











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