ZyXEL Communications P-660R-F1 series, User Manual

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Chapter 9 Certificates
P-660R-F1 Series User’s Guide
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9.2.1 My Certificate Import
Follow the instructions in this screen to save an existing certificate to the ZyXEL Device. Click
Security > Certificates > My Certificates and then Import to open the My Certificate Import
screen.
Note: You can only import a certificate that matches a corresponding certification request
that was generated by the ZyXEL Device.
Note: The certificate you import replaces the corresponding request in the My
Certificates screen.
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.
Modify Click the Edit icon to open a screen with an in-depth list of information about the
certificate.
Click the Remove icon to remove the certificate. A window displays asking you
to confirm that you want to delete the certificate.
You cannot delete a certificate that one or more features is configured to use.
Do the following to delete a certificate that shows *SELF in the Type field.
1. Make sure that no other features, such as HTTPS, VPN, SSH are configured to
use the
*SELF certificate.
2. Click the Edit icon next to another self-signed certificate (see the description
on the Create button if you need to create a self-signed certificate).
3. Select the Default self-signed certificate which signs the imported
remote host certificates check box.
4. Click Apply to save the changes and return to the My Certificates screen.
5. The certificate that originally showed *SELF displays SELF and you can delete
it now.
Note that subsequent certificates move up by one when you take this action
Create Click this to go to the screen where you can have the ZyXEL Device generate a
certificate or a certification request.
Import Click this to open a screen where you can save the certificate that you have
enrolled from a certification authority from your computer to the ZyXEL Device.
Refresh Click this to display the current validity status of the certificates.
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