Chapter 19 Certificates

19.4 My Certificates

Click Security > Certificates > My Certificates to open the My Certificates screen. This is the ZyXEL Device’s summary list of certificates and certification requests. Certificates display in black and certification requests display in gray.

Figure 152 My Certificates

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 103 My Certificates

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

PKI Storage

This bar displays the percentage of the ZyXEL Device’s PKI storage space that is

Space in Use

currently in use. The bar turns from green to red when the maximum is being

 

approached. When the bar is red, you should consider deleting expired or

 

unnecessary certificates before adding more certificates.

 

 

#

This field displays the certificate index number. The certificates are listed in

 

alphabetical order.

 

 

Name

This field displays the name used to identify this certificate. It is recommended that

 

you give each certificate a unique name.

 

 

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-signed certificate.

 

*SELF represents the default self-signed certificate, which the ZyXEL Device uses

 

to sign imported trusted remote host certificates.

 

CERT represents a certificate issued by a certification authority.

 

 

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.

 

 

 

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