Configuring the BCM certificate

In earlier versions of BMC Client Management (formerly BMC FootPrints Asset Core), the security certificate was hard-coded. In version 12, a certificate is generated for each installed client.

If your system uses Asset Core 11.5 through 11.7, the existing certificate will continue to work.

If your system uses BMC Client Management (BCM) version 12 and later, you must copy the new BCM certificate and configure it as explained below before you can configure integration in FootPrints.

Prerequisites

• Make sure that BCM Version 12.0.0 or later is installed.
• Make sure you have read/write access to that FootPrints path.

To obtain and configure the BCM certificate

1. Stop the Tomcat service on the server where FootPrints is installed.
2. Install the BCM certificate:
   1. From the server where BCM is installed, copy the BCM security certificate.
      The default location is in a folder under //Program Files/BMC Software/Client Management/Master/bin/certs/auth.
   2. On the server where FootPrints is installed, paste the certificate file into the trusted folder in the FootPrints installation folder.
      The default location is //Program Files/BMC Software/FootPrints/conf/certs/trusted.
3. Reboot the Tomcat service.

When you click Test Connectivity and Test Credentials on the Asset Core Setup page in FootPrints, the new certificate will be used and the system verifies that the certificate was successfully configured.

Next step

Configuring Web Services

Related topic

Integrating BMC Client Management with FootPrints