This section describes how the master Qlik Sense Repository Service (QRS) on the central node in a site handles the client certificate when a Qlik Sense service starts.
The client certificate is located in the following place in the Microsoft Windows certificate store:
Current User>Personal>Certificates
When a Qlik Sense service starts, the QRS searches the certificate store to see if there are any Qlik Sense certificates. Depending on the results of the search, the QRS does the following:
- If no client certificate is found, the QRS creates a new certificate.
- If only one client certificate is found, the QRS checks if it is valid. If the certificate is not valid, the QRS deletes the certificate and creates a new one. In addition, the QRS logs that an invalid certificate was found and deleted.
- If more than one client certificate is found, the QRS deletes all certificates and creates a new one. Duplicates are not allowed. In addition, the QRS logs the number of valid and invalid certificates that were found and deleted.