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Chapter 21 CNM System Setting

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21.7.2 Current Certificate Information

You can view your current certificate information in this screen, including certificate name,
type, origin and duration of validity.

Figure 177 CNM System Setting > Configuration > Certificate Management

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 152 CNM System Setting > Configuration > Certificate Management

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Certificate Name

This field displays the name used to identify this certificate. It is
recommended that you give each certificate a unique name.

Certificate Type

This field displays what kind of certificate this is.
REQ represents a certification request and is not yet a valid certificate.
Send a certification request to a certification authority, which then
issues a certificate. Use the My Certificate Import screen to import the
certificate and replace the request.
SELF represents a self-signed certificate.
*SELF represents the default self-signed certificate, which the device
uses to sign imported trusted remote host certificates.
CERT represents a certificate issued by a certification authority.

Subject

This field displays identifying information about the certificate's owner,
such as CN (Common Name), OU (Organizational Unit or department),
O (Organization or company) and C (Country). It is recommended that
each certificate have unique subject information.

Issuer

This field displays identifying information about the certificate's issuing
certification authority, such as a common name, organizational unit or
department, organization or company and country. With self-signed
certificates, this is the same information as in the Subject field.

Valid From

This field displays the date that the certificate becomes applicable. The
text displays in red and includes a "Not Yet Valid!" message if the
certificate has not yet become applicable.

Valid To

This field displays the date that the certificate expires. The text displays
in red and includes an "Expiring!" or "Expired!" message if the
certificate is about to expire or has already expired.

KeyStore Type

This field specifies the format of the certificate. Possible formats
include PKCS #12 (pkcs12) and Java Key Store (jks)