GoDaddy CA

Prerequisites

To configure a GoDaddy CA account in AppViewX, you will need:
  • GoDaddy Customer Number, API key, and secret for making API Requests from AppViewX in order to perform CLM (Certificate Lifecycle Management) operations

    For links to detailed instructions to get the above information from GoDaddy, see the References section.

  • Internet access or a proxy configuration for the AppViewX server. Refer the Managing Proxy Settings documentation in the Platform guides.
  • Product units in your GoDaddy account to perform CLM operations

Configuring GoDaddy

  1. Go to (Menu) > CERT+ > ADMINISTRATION > Certificate Authority.
  2. From the displayed CA, Select GoDaddy.
    The GoDaddy home page is displayed.
  3. Click the Configure Now button or +Add icon from the middle or top-right of the page respectively.
    The GoDaddy configuration page is displayed.
  4. Update the following details in the General Information section as described in the table:
    Table 1. General Information - Field Description Table
    Fields Description
    *CA Account name A unique name to identify the CA setting.
    Note: No special characters other than ‘.’, ‘-’,’_’ are allowed. Names should not start with special characters.
    *Purpose/Usage Certificate Type for which CLM actions will be enabled.

    Example: Server, Client.
    Proxy Required Enable this field if the CA communication needs to happen via Proxy. The proxy details configured in general settings will be used for communication.
    Data Center (AppViewX's CA agent) Select the data center through which the CA communication needs to happen.
    *: Mandatory fields
  5. Update the following details in the CA Configuration section as described in the table. These fields are necessary for invoking the GoDaddy CA APIs for Certificate Management.
    Table 2. CA Configuration - Field Description Table
    Fields Description
    *Base URL This URL will contain the Base URL of the GoDaddy CA API instance.

    For example: https://api.godaddy.com
    *Customer Number Each user will have a unique customer number which is used to obtain the certificates from the GoDaddy CA account.
    *API Key API key generated in the GoDaddy portal which is used for GoDaddy API communications.
    *API Secret API Secret generated in the GoDaddy portal which is used for GoDaddy API communications.
    First Name First name of the GoDaddy Account user’s name as provided in the portal to be used for certificate creation purposes.
    Last Name Last name of the GoDaddy Account user’s name as provided in the portal to be used for certificate creation purposes.
    Email Address Email Id of the GoDaddy Account user’s name as provided in the portal to be used for certificate creation purposes.

    Note: Valid email address.

    Phone Number Phone number of the GoDaddy Account user as provided in the portal to be used for certificate creation purposes.
    Note: Phone numbers must contain a minimum of 7 and a maximum of 15 numeric values.
    *: Mandatory fields
  6. Click Save.
    In the CA instance inventory, the connection status is initially set to In Progress. Twice after this, this status is automatically checked and refreshed every 5 seconds. Once the CA instance is successfully configured, the status is updated to Success. Status checks after the first two times have to be done via a manual refresh.
    Note: In case the connection fails, you can manually verify the connection status by clicking the Check button in the Connection Status field.

Manually Validating the GoDaddy CA Connection Status

  1. Go to (Menu) > CERT+ > ADMINISTRATION > Certificate Authority.
  2. From the displayed CA, Select GoDaddy.
    The GoDaddy home page is displayed.
  3. In the Status column of the grid with the listed accounts, click Check to validate the CA setting that has been created.
    The CA communication will be validated and the Connection Status will be shown as either Success or Failure.

Viewing GoDaddy Product Units

Each GoDaddy account has different types of SSL products and units. The below steps will allow users to know the availability of the products and their remaining units.
  1. Go to (Menu) > CERT+ > ADMINISTRATION > Certificate Authority.
  2. From the displayed CA, Select GoDaddy.
    The GoDaddy home page is displayed.
  3. On the GoDaddy page, click View to fetch the product types and the units available for the GoDaddy account configured.
    Once clicked, users can view the available and used product units.

References

Vendor documentation for retrieving GoDaddy prerequisites: