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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have setup two Windows Server 2008 R2 servers as Domain Controllers, aswell as two IDPs and they are load balanced.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>DCs are accessed via a virtual IP address, (configured on the F5 load balancer) and IDPs work just fine with this virtual address for both authentication and attributes on port 389 (regular LDAP)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I now wish to implement LDAP over SSL (LDAPS - port 636).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Could you advise on the best strategy for creating and implementing the certificate(s)? I've seen guides to do this for one server but not 2 load balanced servers.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I want to use a self-signed certificate and I understand that the certificate must have the fqdn of the server.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So the question is if I add each of the certificates to the IDPs using the java keytool, will this work correctly?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Will I need to do anything special like create a wildcard cert and try to use the same cert on both DC's?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I ask this as I had to do the same to get the IDPs and SPs to load balance properly, using the same private keys on each, but not sure how I would go about this on the DCs.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>( Sorry for the long email )<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Yusuf<i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>