Certificates

To meet organization security requirements, you can install a device certificate – signed by the organization's certificate authority (CA) – to each Q-SYS Core and peripheral. CA-signed device certificates allow for trusted connections between Cores, peripherals, and PCs accessing those devices on the network.

Note: Certificates must be PEM-encoded (ASCII, base64).

Prerequisites

Secure Communication Tab

Q-SYS communication between Cores and Peripherals can be secured by encryption and mutual authentication using X.509 certificates. Secure mode of communication applies to the two types of connections:

Control Connections: Involving design controls.

Device-to-Device Web Connections: Including design deploy, firmware update, device status, etc.

Note: At this time, we do not recommend enabling this feature on systems with more than 64 Peripherals. This limit will be removed in the next patch release.