Session Manager uses five unique certificates for TLS connections. What are the two most important certificates in communicating with other devices/entities? (Choose two.)

Question

Options

• ASIP certificates
• BSal Agent certificates
• CWebSphere
• DHTTPS certificates
• EManagement certificates

• A
  95% (21)
• D
  5% (1)

Explanation

Session Manager (Avaya) relies on SIP certificates (A) to secure TLS-encrypted SIP signaling with endpoints, trunks, and other SIP entities on the network, making it the primary protocol-level communication certificate. Management certificates (E) are equally critical because they authenticate Session Manager's connection to System Manager - the central orchestration platform for the entire Avaya Aura suite - without which Session Manager cannot receive configuration or routing data.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• B (SAL Agent): SAL (Secure Access Link) is a remote serviceability/maintenance tunnel for Avaya support, not a peer-device communication channel.
• C (WebSphere): WebSphere is an internal IBM application server component used by the platform itself; it doesn't represent an outward-facing communication link.
• D (HTTPS): HTTPS certificates handle browser-based admin UI access, not device-to-device or system-to-system communication.

Memory tip: Think of the two roles Session Manager must "talk" to - devices (SIP → endpoints/trunks) and its manager (Management cert → System Manager). SIP = speaks to the network; Management = speaks to the boss. If it's not one of those two conversations, it's a distractor.

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