ZyXEL Communications P-2612HW-F1 User Manual page 298

Chapter 15 Certificates
Table 90 Security > Certificates > My Certificates (continued)
LABEL
Subject
Issuer
Valid From
Valid To
Modify
Create
Import
Refresh
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DESCRIPTION
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.
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.
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.
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.
Click the Edit icon to open a screen with an in-depth list of information
about the certificate.
Click the Remove 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 Edit 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
Click Create to go to the screen where you can have the ZyXEL Device
generate a certificate or a certification request.
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.
Click Refresh to display the current validity status of the certificates.
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