Nokia 7710 Viewing the VPN log, Synchronising VPN policy servers, Enrolling VPN certificates

Synchronising VPN policy servers

To install and update policies from the VPN policy server, select a VPN policy server and tap Synchronise. VPN client connects to the VPN policy server to check whether administrators added, updated, or deleted VPN policies.

If the VPN policy server contains new VPN policies or new versions of VPN policies, the VPN policies are installed on the smartphone. If administrators deleted VPN policies from the VPN policy server, the VPN policies are removed from the smartphone.

Note: When you synchronise a VPN policy server for the first time, matching VPN access points are created for each policy that you install on the smartphone. VPN access points combine VPN policies with Internet access points. When you connect to a VPN policy server to install or update VPN policies, you might need to enroll VPN certificates from the VPN policy server.

Enrolling VPN certificates

VPN client creates a certification request for each required certificate and sends the request to the VPN policy server. The VPN policy server enrolls each requested certificate from a certification authority and returns it to VPN client.

The certification request and the corresponding certificate contain the identity of the user. Depending on the VPN policy server configuration, the VPN policy server user identity might be used as the user identity in VPN certificates. If this is not possible, VPN management asks the user identity from you for a particular domain. Administrators tell you what information to enter.

To create certification requests, in the VPN user identity dialog, enter your certificate user identity for the specified domain in User identity: and tap OK.

Viewing the VPN log

The VPN log contains log messages that are recorded when you update and synchronise VPN policies and use VPN access points to create VPN connections to VPN gateways.

In Log, you can view and clear log messages. You can view the message write, the time when each message is recorded, and the beginning of the log message.

indicates error, warning, and information.

To view the complete log message, tap Open.

Log sorts log messages by the time and date when they are recorded, most recent messages first. You can view messages up to the time when you opened Log.

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