470 CHAPTER 15: CRYPTOGRAPHY COMMANDS
crypto ca-certificate Installs a certificate authority’s own PKCS#7 certificate into the WX
certificate and key storage area.
Syntax — crypto ca-certificate {admin | eap | web}
PEM-formatted certificate
admin — Stores the certificate authority’s certificate that signed the
administrative certificate for the WX switch.
The administrative certificate authenticates the WX to 3Com wireless
switch manager (3XWM) or Web Manager.
eap — Stores the certificate authority’s certificate that signed the
Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) certificate for the WX switch.
The EAP certificate authenticates the WX to 802.1X supplicants
(clients).
web — Stores the certificate authority’s certificate that signed the
WebAAA certificate for the WX switch.
The Web certificate authenticates the WX to clients who use
WebAAA.
PEM-formatted certificate — ASCII text representation of the
certificate authority PKCS #7 certificate, consisting of up to
5120 characters that you have obtained from the certificate authority.
Defaults — None.
Access — Enabled.
History —Introduced in MSS Version 3.0. Webaaa option renamed to
web in MSS Version 4.1.
Usage — The Privacy-Enhanced Mail protocol (PEM) format is used for
representing a PKCS #7 certificate in ASCII text. PEM uses base64
encoding to convert the certificate to ASCII text, then puts the encoded
text between the following delimiters:
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
-----END CERTIFICATE-----