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January 30, 2025

Technical Tip: How to create certificate needed to communicate with OCI connector

  • January 30, 2025
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Description The article explains how to create a certificate which will be uploaded to FortiWeb OCI configuration to communicate with OCI.
Scope FortiWeb.
Solution
  1. Login OCI and select the account :

 

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  1. Scroll down the page and find API keys, click Add API key

 

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  1. Select Generate API key pair, download the private key and public key, rename the extension of the private key file from pem to key, and select 'Add' to add the key pair
  2. Copy the private key to a Linux system and run the following command to generate the certificate:

 

openssl req -new -key private.key -out oci-connector.csr

openssl x509 -req -in oci-connector.csr -out oci-connector.crt -signkey private.key -days 3650

 

Related document :

Overview

 

Note:

This is only valid for Public OCI Cloud, and not Government OCI Cloud.

 

  1. Upload the certificate in System -> Admin -> Certificates -> Admin Cert Local and apply it on the OCI Connector as follows:

 

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