Chapter 20 Certificates

20.3 The Local Certificates Screen

Click Security Settings > Certificates to open the Local Certificates screen. This is the ZyXEL Device’s summary list of certificates and certification requests.

Figure 102 Security Settings > Certificates > Local Certificates

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 75 Security Settings > Certificates > Local Certificates

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Create

Click this button to go to the screen where you can have the ZyXEL

Certificate

Device generate a certification request.

Request

 

 

 

Import

Click this button to open a screen where you can save the certificate

Certificate

that you have enrolled from a certification authority from your

 

computer to the ZyXEL Device.

 

 

Name

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

 

recommended that you give each certificate a unique name.

 

 

In Use

This field displays whether the certificate is in use and how many

 

applications use the certificate.

 

 

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.

 

 

Type

This field displays what kind of certificate this is.

 

request 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 Load Certificate screen to import the

 

certificate and replace the request.

 

signed represents a certificate issued by a certification authority.

 

 

Modify

Click the View icon to open a screen with an in-depth list of information

 

about the certificate (or certification request).

 

For a certification request, click Load Signed to import the signed

 

certificate.

 

Click the Remove icon to delete the certificate (or certification

 

request). You cannot delete a certificate that one or more features is

 

configured to use.

 

 

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