Validating camera certificates is necessary to guarantee secure communication between the gateway and its device. The gateway should check if the certificate on a camera is correct and only then should proceed with further communication.

The Connection Service feature allows you to configure how the gateway will validate the camera certificates to allow or reject the communication.

How to Use

Once you have registered your device, a new functional item called Connection Service will appear in the IoT > FIM Web Console – refer to Camera Discovery and Registration.

Clicking on the Connection Service functional item will display a page with properties and operations.

Properties

• trusted – indicates if the HTTPS certificates are valid and trusted
• accepted – specifies if the user has marked the HTTPS connection to the ONVIF device to be accepted even if it is not trusted

Operations

• acceptUntrusted – allows the user to mark the HTTPS connection to the ONVIF device to be accepted even if it is not trusted
• rejectUntrusted – allows the user to mark the HTTPS connection to the ONVIF device to be rejected, after it was marked as accepted before

For example, you have the trusted property set as false:

On the Operations side, press the run button for acceptUntrusted:

Shortly after pressing the invoke button for acceptUntrusted command, the device functional items will be reinitialized and all device services will be available as functional items:

Alternatively, you can choose to invoke the rejectUntrusted operation.

Executing the command rejectUntrusted will reset the accepted property and will reinitialize the device, removing all other device specific functional items.