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Allied Telesis AT-S62 User Manual

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AT-S62 Menus Interface User’s Guide

Section VII: Management Security

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PEM - Creates the certificate in the Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM)
format, which is an ASCII format.

Note

Option 4, Type, cannot be changed. The PKCS10 value indicates the
internal format of an enrollment request.

11. Type 5 to select Generate Enrollment Request.

Once the switch has finished generating the request, you will see
a message similar to the following.

Enrollment request is being generated. Please wait
...Done.
Enrollment Request available in file [Switch
12.csr].
Press any key to continue ...

The enrollment request is now stored in the AT-S62 file system. To
see the file, refer to Displaying System Files on page 172.

12. Press any key to return to the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)

Configuration menu.

13. To submit the request to a CA, you must upload the enrollment

request from the file system on the switch to your management
workstation or to an FTP server on your network. For instructions,
refer to Uploading a System File on page 195. Once you have received
the certificates from the CA, refer to Installing CA Certificates onto a
Switch on page 684 for an overvi
ew of the procedures to loading the
certificates onto the switch.

When submitting an enrollment request, be sure to follow the
rules and guidelines of the CA. Failure to follow their guidelines
may delay the issuing of the certificate.