Before You Use Digital Certificates

Before you use digital certificates, you should:

• Have a working relationship with a certificate authority (CA).
• Have a good working knowledge of how to work with certificates.
• Decide whether or not to use SCEP to assist with certificate management.
• Identify which connections should be secured by a protocol that requires digital certificates.
• Know how to use the file management commands in the CLI.

Related Topics

• Overview of Digital Certificates
• Commands to Manage Digital Certificates
• Manually Obtaining Digital Certificates
• Obtaining Digital Certificates through SCEP
• Viewing Information About Security Certificates (SRC CLI)