CreatePublicPrivateKeyPair

You can use the CreatePublicPrivateKeyPair method to create public and private SSL keys. You can use these keys to generate certificate signing requests. There can only be one key pair in use for each storage cluster. Before using this method to replacing existing keys, ensure the keys are no longer in use by any providers.

Parameters

This method has the following input parameters:

Name	Description	Type	Default value	Required
commonName	The X.509 distinguished name Common Name field (CN).	string	None	No
country	The X.509 distinguished name Country field (C).	string	None	No
emailAddress	The X.509 distinguished name Email Address field (MAIL).	string	None	No
locality	The X.509 distinguished name Locality Name field (L).	string	None	No
organization	The X.509 distinguished name Organization Name field (O).	string	None	No
organizationalUnit	The X.509 distinguished name Organizational Unit Name field (OU).	string	None	No
state	The X.509 distinguished name State or Province Name field (ST or SP or S).	string	None	No

Return values

This method has no return values. If there is no error, key creation is considered successful.

Request example

Requests for this method are similar to the following example:

{
  "method": "CreatePublicPrivateKeyPair",
  "params": {
    "commonName": "Name",
    "country": "US",
    "emailAddress" : "email@domain.com"
   },
"id": 1
}

Response example

This method returns a response similar to the following example:

{
   "id": 1,
   "result": 
      {}
}

New since version

11.7