Creating profiles in Design Center

You create the profiles that are used within the Design Center Project as resources in a resource set. You can reuse these profile resources in several configurations within the Project.

In the resource set, the profile resources are contained within a profile configuration resource. You create this profile configuration resource, with the included profile resources, in the Profile Configuration Editor.

When setting up profiles in the Profile Configuration Editor, you can check the validity of each profile on the Validation results tab or check the complete profile configuration by selecting Tools > Validate all profiles. The Profile Configuration Editor automatically validates the complete profile configuration when you exit the tool.

Prerequisites and recommendations

•	A Project must not contain more than one profile configuration resource (containing the required profile resources).

•	We recommend a separate resource set for the profile configuration resource.

•	Each profile resource within the profile configuration resource must have a unique name.

To create a profile configuration resource

1	Right-click the resource set and select New > Profile configuration.

2	Double-click the new profile configuration resource.

3	In the Profile Configuration Editor, create the profiles you need.

To create the profile resources

1	In the Profile Configuration Editor, right-click the <Profile type> folder and select New <Profile type>.

2	In the properties view, edit the profile settings. See:

–	TCP/IP profiles

–	Web service profiles

–	Authentication profiles

–	Secure channel profiles

–	Certificate store profiles

After adding a certificate store profile to a profile configuration, you must add certificates to this profile. The certificates must first be imported to the resource set.

To add a certificate to a certificate store profile

1	In the Profile Configuration Editor, select the certificate store profile.

2	Select the appropriate tab (for example, Trusted authorities certificates). For information about the available tabs, see Certificate store profiles.

3	Click and browse to and select the certificate.

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Click OK.

To add certificate password and alias (optional)

1	Select the certificate and click Edit .

The Edit Certificate Information dialog box opens. For detailed information about the options, see Edit Certificate Information dialog box.

2	Enter the Certificate password.

3	Click Add to add aliases (alias name and password).

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Click OK.