Retrieving A Certificate Manually - H3C S5120-SI Series Configuration Manual

If a PKI domain already has a local certificate, creating an RSA key pair will result in inconsistency
between the key pair and the certificate. To generate a new RSA key pair, delete the local
certificate and then issue the public-key local create command. For information about the
public-key local create command, refer to Public Key Commands.
A newly created key pair will overwrite the existing one. If you perform the public-key local create
command in the presence of a local RSA key pair, the system will ask you whether you want to
overwrite the existing one.
If a PKI domain has already a local certificate, you cannot request another certificate for it. This is to
avoid inconsistency between the certificate and the registration information resulting from
configuration changes. Before request a new certificate, use the pki delete-certificate command
to delete the existing local certificate and the CA certificate stored locally.
When it is impossible to request a certificate from the CA through SCEP, you can print the request
information or save the request information to a local file, and then send the printed information or
saved file to the CA by an out-of-band means. To print the request information, use the pki
request-certificate domain command with the pkcs10 keyword. To save the request information
to a local file, use the pki request-certificate domain command with the pkcs10 filename
filename keyword and argument combination.
Make sure the clocks of the entity and the CA are synchronous. Otherwise, the validity period of the
certificate will be abnormal.
The pki request-certificate domain configuration will not be saved in the configuration file.

Retrieving a Certificate Manually

You can download an existing CA certificate, or local certificate, from the CA server and save it locally.
To do so, you can use two ways: online and offline. In offline mode, you need to retrieve a certificate by
an out-of-band means like FTP, disk, e-mail and then import it into the local PKI system.
Certificate retrieval serves two purposes:
Locally store the certificates associated with the local security domain for improved query efficiency
and reduced query count,
Prepare for certificate verification.
Before retrieving a local certificate in online mode, be sure to complete LDAP server configuration.
Follow these steps to retrieve a certificate manually:
To do...
Enter system view
Retrieve a
certificate
manually
system-view
pki retrieval-certificate { ca | local }
Online
domain domain-name
pki import-certificate { ca | local }
Offline domain domain-name { der | p12 | pem }
[ filename filename ]
Use the command...
1-9
Remarks
—
Required
Use either
command.