
70 DataPower SOA Appliance Service Planning, Implementation, and Best Practices
3.3 Best practices
This section provides some recommendations to consider when managing the
DataPower appliance key and certificates.
3.3.1 Managing certificates
Be sure to store the certificates in the appropriate directory as a best practice for
proper organizational reference.
If a certificate is exported using the Export Crypto Object tool, the certificate is
encapsulated within DataPower configuration object xml and might need to be
edited to revert back to a standard PEM file format.
3.3.2 Managing keys
For non-HSM equipped appliances, imported keys cannot be retrie ...