Chapter 18 Certificates
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 64 Certificates > My Certificates
LABEL | DESCRIPTION |
PKI Storage | This bar displays the percentage of the NWA’s PKI storage space that is |
Space in Use | currently in use. When you are using 80% or less of the storage space, |
| the bar is green. When the amount of space used is over 80%, the bar |
| is red. When the bar is red, you should consider deleting expired or |
| unnecessary certificates before adding more certificates. |
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Replace | This button displays when the NWA has the factory default certificate. |
| The factory default certificate is common to all NWAs that use |
| certificates. ZyXEL recommends that you use this button to replace the |
| factory default certificate with one that uses your NWA's MAC address. |
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# | This field displays the certificate index number. The certificates are |
| listed in alphabetical order. |
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Name | This field displays the name used to identify this certificate. It is |
| recommended that you give each certificate a unique name. |
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Type | This field displays what kind of certificate this is. |
| REQ represents a certification request and is not yet a valid certificate. |
| Send a certification request to a certification authority, which then |
| issues a certificate. Use the My Certificate Import screen to import |
| the certificate and replace the request. |
| SELF represents a |
| *SELF represents the default |
| uses to sign imported trusted remote host certificates. |
| CERT represents a certificate issued by a certification authority. |
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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. |
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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 |
| certificates, this is the same information as in the Subject field. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Details | Click Details to open a screen with an |
| the certificate. |
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Create | Click Create to go to the screen where you can have the NWA generate |
| a certificate or a certification request. |
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Import | Click Import to open a screen where you can save the certificate that |
| you have enrolled from a certification authority from your computer to |
| the NWA. |
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