Trust (4)

The HTTPS protocol warrants that the computer connections are secure

The HTTPS protocol secures and encrypts the Internet connection in order to enhance the security of the computer connections within a Prinect system environment. To ensure the security status, a special security certificate must be installed on all computers connected to the PMC, and the "Trust" status must be set to "Trust" for each computer in the Administration section of the PMC.

Trust/distrust status

Prerequisite: When the status is set to Trust, a security certificate will be installed on the respective computers. Distrusting a computer will uninstall the security certificate again. See The "Certificate Management" window.

To ensure safe communication between the Prinect computers in your system environment, the computers must have a positive "Trust" status.

The "Trust" column of the list indicates the Trust status as follows:

To ensure smooth communication in your Prinect system environment, all computers involved should be trusted.

Trust a computer

To trust a computer that is not (yet) trusted, highlight the row of that computer in the "Computer" list and click the "Trust this computer" button. In the "Trust" column, the icon changes immediately to the "Trust" icon.

Distrust a computer

To distrust a computer, e.g. because a computer no longer performs any tasks within the Prinect system environment and would represent a potential security risk, select the row of the computer concerned in the "Computer" list and click the "Distrust this computer" button.

A computer that has had been distrusted will be considered a risk to the security status. Accordingly, a security warning will be displayed in the "Security Advisor" view. See Security Advisor.

What is the effect if a computer is trusted?

Computers that trusted are given digital certificates enabling them to securely communicate with each other in the Prinect system environment.

Computers that are not trusted will not receive these certificates which excludes them from secure communication within the Prinect system environment.

Set the "Trust" status when Prinect Maintenance Center starts

When you launch the web UI of Prinect Maintenance Center or – after changing the language, for example – you restart it, a window opens where you can set up the "Trust" status if computers without clearly defined "Trust" status are logged in at the PMC computer. This window contains the "Computer" list. See also "Computer" list (1).

This is where you can trust each of the computers in the Prinect system environment or distrust them. See Trust (4).

If you do not want to configure the "Trust Status" right at the start of the PMC user interface, you can click "Cancel" and configure it, for example, in the "Administration > Computer Connections" area.

Note: As an alternative, you can also switch the language of the user interface (possibly to another language and then back to the original language). This set-up dialog will appear again after each switchover if setting the "Trust" status has not yet been completed.

Click "Next" when you have defined the "Trust" status for all displayed computers. The following window opens now:

Click "Finish" to finalize the configuration.

Note: The Setup window will no longer appear if a "Trust" status has been defined for all computers in the Prinect system environment. You can still configure the Trust status in the "Administration > Computer Connections" section.