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Using the Certificate Management Feature

The following sections describe the certificate management feature.

Accessing the Certificate Management Feature​

Complete the following steps to access the certificate management feature and detailed information about the currently installed certificate.

To access the Credential Management feature:

  1. Go to the appliance's configuration application.

    • To access the FlexDeploy configuration interface, use port 8443 . For example, enter https://flexdeploy.example.org:8443.

  2. Sign in and access the Interfaces page.
  3. Under the network interface configuration section is the Certificate Management button. Next to this button is a tag describing whether the default certificate (the self-signed automatically generated certificate), or a user supplied custom certificate is currently installed. Select the Certificate Management button. The Certificate Management page opens.
  4. Go to the Currently Installed Certificate section and select the View Certificate button. Details include the identity of the issuing certificate and the identity of the server certificate.

Installing a Custom Certificate and Key​

Complete the following steps to install a custom certificate and key and verify the installation configuration is correct.

To install a custom certificate and key:

  1. Go to the appliance's configuration application.

    • To access the FlexDeploy configuration interface, use port 8443 . For example, enter https://flexdeploy.example.org:8443.

  2. Sign in and access the Interfaces page.
  3. Under the network interface configuration section is the Certificate Management button. Next to this button is a tag describing whether the default certificate (the self-signed automatically generated certificate), or a user supplied custom certificate is currently installed. Select the Certificate Management button. The Certificate Management page opens.
  4. Go to the Currently Installed Certificate section and select the View Certificate button. Details include the identity of the issuing certificate and the identity of the server certificate.

Removing an Installed Custom Certificate​

Complete the following steps to remove an installed custom certificate and roll back to the default certificate and key.

To remove an installed custom certificate:

  1. Go to the appliance's configuration application.

    • To access the FlexDeploy configuration interface, use port 8443 . For example, enter https://flexdeploy.example.org:8443.

  2. Sign in and access the Interfaces page.
  3. Under the network interface configuration section is the Certificate Management button. Next to this button is a tag describing whether the default certificate (the self-signed automatically generated certificate), or a user supplied custom certificate is currently installed. Select the Certificate Management button. The Certificate Management page opens.
  4. Go to the Currently Installed Certificate section and select the View Certificate button. Details include the identity of the issuing certificate and the identity of the server certificate.
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Once Roll Back To Default is selected, you will be asked to confirm whether you would like to proceed with the operation. Once completed, in order to return to a custom certificate it will need to be re-entered and installed.