Importing New Certificates
When you have an SSL certificate issued by an SSL certificate provider, you can import it into the controller and use it for HTTPS communication.
To complete this procedure, you will need the following:
- The signed server certificate
- The intermediate CA certificate (at least one)
- The private key file
NOTE
The file size of each signed certificate and intermediate certificate must not
exceed 8192 bytes. If a certificate exceeds 8192 bytes, you will be unable to import it into
the controller.Follow these steps to import a signed server certificate:
- Copy the signed certificate file, intermediate CA certificate file, and private key file to a location (either on the local drive or a network share) that you can access from the controller web interface.
- From the application select, System > Certificates > Installed Certs.
- Click Import, the Import Certificate form appears.
- Enter a Name to identify the certificate.
- Enter a Description about the certificate.
- For Service Certificates, click Browse and select the location where the certificate is saved.
- For Intermediate CA certificates, click Browse and select the location where the certificate is saved. If you need to upload additional intermediate CA certificates to establish a chain of trust to the signed certificate, you can select up to four certificates.
- If you are using this SSL certificate for a Hotspot 2.0 configuration, you must also import a root CA certificate. To import Root CA Certificate, click Browse and select the location where the certificate is saved.
- You can import the Private Key file either by
- uploading file—choose Upload and click Browse to select the location.
- using CSR—choose Using CSR and select the CSR that you generated earlier.
- Enter the Key Passphrase that has been assigned to the private key file.
- Click OK.
NOTE
You can also edit or delete a certificate by selecting the options Configure or
Delete respectively.