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Create Device Certificate (Local Self-Signed)

You are here: Device Administration > Certificate Management > Certificates.

To create a local self-signed device certificate:

  1. Click Create available on the upper-right corner of the Certificates page.
  2. Click Device Certificate and select Local Self-Signed.
    The Create Device Certificate (Local Self-Signed) page appears.
  3. Complete the configuration according to the guidelines provided in Table 1.
  4. Click OK to save the changes. If you want to discard your changes, click Cancel instead.
    If you click OK, a new CA certificate with the provided configuration is created.
Table 1: Fields on the Create Device Certificate (Local Self-Signed) page

Field

Action

Digital signature

Select one of the digital signatures from the list. That is, RSA, DSA, ECDSA, and so on. By default, RSA-2048 is selected.

Name

Enter a certificate name.

Subject (Minimum of one field required)

Domain component

Enter the domain component that you want to associate with the certificate.

Common name

Enter a common name for the certificate.

Organizational unit name

Enter the name of the organizational unit that you want to associate with the certificate.

Organizational name

Enter the name of the organization that you want to associate with this certificate.

Serial number

Device serial number is autopopulated.

Locality

Enter the origin locality name.

State

Enter the origin state name.

Country

Enter the origin country name.

Subject Alt Name

NOTE: For a local certificate, any one field is mandatory.

Domain name

Enter a domain name that you want to associate with the certificate.

Email

Enter an email address of the entity owning the certificate.

IPv4 address

Enter the IPv4 address of the device.

IPv6 address

This option is available for a local certificate. Enter the IPv6 address of the device.

Advanced

Digest

Select the digest from the list that you want to associate with the local certificate.

For local self-signed certificate (RSA/DSA/ECDSA) options are: SHA-1 digests or SHA-256 digests.

Signing certificate

Enable or disable to sign other certificates.

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