Chapter 19 Certificates

Table 116 My Certificates (continued)

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

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 details icon to open a screen with an in-depth list of information about the

 

certificate.

 

Click the delete 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 details 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 Create to go to the screen where you can have the ZyXEL Device generate

 

a certificate or a certification request.

 

 

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 ZyXEL Device.

 

 

Refresh

Click Refresh to display the current validity status of the certificates.

 

 

19.5 My Certificate Import

Click Security > Certificates > My Certificates and then Import to open the My Certificate Import screen. Follow the instructions in this screen to save an existing certificate to the ZyXEL Device.

"You can only import a certificate that matches a corresponding certification request that was generated by the ZyXEL Device.

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