As part of the installation process, ERA requires a peer certificate authority and a peer certificate for Agents. These certificates are used to authenticate products distributed under your license. You can create new certificates for use on additional client computers. For example, a server certificate is required for the distribution of ESET server products. In some cases, you might also want to create a new certificate to set specific parameters for a certain group of client computers, for example, a group of computers that will only be in use for six months might use a certificate with a different expiration date than other client computers.
Your Certificate Authority (CA) is used to legitimize certificates distributed from your network. In an enterprise setting, a public key can be used to automatically associate client software with the ESET Remote Administrator Server to allow for remote installation of ESET products.
A Peer certificate or Certification Authority must be present in ERA Web Console.