My Certificates - Details

Use this screen to view in-depth certificate information and change the certificate’s name. In the case of a self-signed certificate, you can set it to be the one that the Prestige uses to sign the trusted remote host certificates that you import to the Prestige.

Label

Description

PKI Storage Space in UseThis bar displays the percentage of the Prestige's PKI storage space that is currently in use. When you are using 80% or less of the storage space, the bar is green. When the amount of space used is over 80%, the bar is red. When the bar is red, you should consider deleting expired or unnecessary certificates before adding more certificates.
ReplaceThis button displays when the Prestige has the factory default certificate. The factory default certificate is common to all Prestiges that use certificates. It is recommended that you use this button to replace the factory default certificate with one that uses your Prestige's MAC address.

#

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 Prestige 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 CA, 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 "ot 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.

BackClick Back to return to the previous screen.
DetailsClick Details to open a screen with an in-depth list of information about the certificate.
CreateClick Create to go to the screen where you can have the Prestige generate a certificate or a certificate request.
ImportClick Import to open a screen where you can save the certificate that you have enrolled from a CA from your computer to the Prestige.
Delete

Click Delete to remove 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. Select the certificate and click Detail.

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.

Refresh

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