Chapter 18: Baseline Privacy Interface (BPI)
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C4® CMTS Release 8.3 User Guide
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Provisioning BPI X.509 Certificates Using Import/Export Commands
Importing Certificate Authority (CA) Certificates
Use this procedure to import provisioned CA certificates entries for the docsBpi2CmtsCACertEntry MIB table.
The imported file may be an ASCII file (containing previously exported provisioned CA certificate(s), or a DER-encoded
binary (usually *.der) certificate file.
1.
Upload the ASCII file(s) containing exported docsBpi2CmtsCACertEntrys in ASCII mode or DER encoded certificate file(s)
in binary mode to the /system/certs directory on the C4/c CMTS flash disk.
2.
Copy the certificates to the C4/c CMTS internal database by issuing the following CLI command:
copy <path/filename> cacert-config
Where: <path/filename> is the path and file name of the ASCII certificate file or the DER-encoded binary certificate
file.
The CA certificate is read out of <path/filename> and provisioned to the MIB table docsBpi2CmtsCACertEntry.
(Example) To read the certificate(s) in the file /system/certs/cacerts.txt on the C4/c CMTS flash disk and save it in the
docsBpi2CmtsCACertEntry MIB table, use the following command:
copy /system/certs/cacerts.txt cacert-config
Exporting Certificate Authority (CA) Certificates
Use this procedure to export provisioned CA certificate entries from the docsBpi2CmtsCACertEntry MIB table. The
exported file contains all the certificates in this table in ASCII format.
1.
FTP to the C4/c CMTS.
2.
Copy the CA certificates to the certs directory on the C4/c CMTS flash disk by issuing the following CLI command:
copy cacert-config <path/filename>
Where: <path/filename> is the path and file name of the backup certificate(s) file to be stored.
CA certificate entries are stored in ASCII just as they appear in the MIB.
(Example) To copy the CA certificate(s) in the docsBpi2CmtsCACertEntry MIB table to an ASCII file named cacerts.txt in the
certs directory on the C4/c CMTS flash disk, use the following command: