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    Understanding Local Certificate Requests

    When you create a local certificate request, the device generates a CA certificate in PKCS #10 format from a key pair you previously generated using the same certificate ID.

    A subject name is associated with the local certificate request in the form of a common name (CN), organizational unit (OU), organization (O), locality (L), state (ST), country (C), and domain component (DC). Additionally, a subject alternative name is associated in the following form:

    • IP address
    • E-mail address
    • Fully qualified domain name (FQDN)

      Note: Some CAs do not support an e-mail address as the domain name in a certificate. If you do not include an e-mail address in the local certificate request, you cannot use an e-mail address as the local IKE ID when configuring the device as a dynamic peer. Instead, you can use a fully qualified domain name (if it is in the local certificate), or you can leave the local ID field empty. If you do not specify a local ID for a dynamic peer, enter the hostname.domain-name of that peer on the device at the other end of the IPsec tunnel in the peer ID field.

    Published: 2012-06-29