How to restore/recreate the default server certificate

Summary

This article will assist you to restore/recreate the default server certificate.

Important: This procedure should be performed when there are no Backups/DR/Cleanup/S3 Copy running.

Only perform these steps if you know how to use SSH  and Linux commands

Description

If you need to restore/recreate the default server certificate, here are the instructions:

1. Connect to the N2WS instance over SSH (for example using PuTTY or MobaXterm)
2. You will need to use "sudo" to reach the cert folder. Please keep ownership and permissions of the files.

sudo su

3. Go to the folder /opt/n2wsoftware/cert 

cd /opt/n2wsoftware/cert 

4. Move the existing files to new name (cpm_server.crt and cpm_server.key), for example

mv cpm_server.crt backup_cpm_server.crt.bkp
mv cpm_server.key backup_cpm_server.key.bkp

5. Stop/Start the instance from the AWS EC2 console.