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3: Management & Configuration
Certificate management
This section allows managing imported SSL certificates.
Common name
For a certificate authority (CA) it shows the name of the organization that emitted the certificate.
For a server, it should show the Fully Qualified Domain name of the service that will be using the certificate (only the web
server at this time).
For a client (Client) it may show the name of the application it will be used for.
Valid until
Date where the certificate will expire. It may still be valid if the peer has disabled checking.
Function
Describes how the certificate can be used in the unit. Possible values are:
z
CA
Used to validate peer certificates and provided as part of the certificate chain for server applications.
z
Client/Server
Client or server certificate. Those are certificates that were imported with a private key. It is possible for a CA
certificate imported with a private key to be used for this function. In that case, it will not show up as a CA.