> - Downloads
> - Before You Use Digital Certificates
> - 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)

> ## 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.

> #### Published: 2009-09-25

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