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Imported Certificate Locations
Imported certificates and keys are stored in the following locations in flash on the controller:
Checking CRLs
A CA maintains a CRL that contains a list of certificates that have been revoked before their expiration date.
Expired client certificates are not accepted for any user-centric network service. Certificates may be revoked
because certificate key has been compromised or the user specified in the certificate is no longer authorized to
use the key.
When a client certificate is being authenticated for a user-centric network service, the controller checks with the
appropriate CA to make sure that the certificate has not been revoked.
Configuring SNMP
Dell controllers support versions 1, 2c, and 3 of Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) for reporting
purposes only.
SNMP Parameters for the Controller
You can configure the following SNMP parameters for the controller.
Table 107 Imported Certificate Locations
Location Description
/flash/certmgr/trustedCAs Trusted CA certificates, either for root or intermediate CAs. Dell recommends that if
you import the certificate for an intermediate CA, you also import the certificate for the
signing CA.
/flash/certmgr/serverCerts Server certificates. These certificates must contain both a public and private key (the
public and private key must match). You can import certificates in PKCS12 and X509
PEM formats, but they are stored in X509 PEM DES encrypted format.
/flash/certmgr/CSR Temporary certificate signing requests (CSRs) that have been generated on the
controller and are awaiting a CA to sign them.
/flash/certmgr/publiccert Public key of certificates. This allows a service on the controller to identify a certificate
as an allowed certificate.
Note: The controller does not support download of CRLs.
Note: Dell-specific management information bases (MIBs) describe the objects that can be managed using SNMP. See the Dell
PowerConnect ArubaOS 5.0 MIB Reference Guide for information about the Dell MIBs and SNMP traps.
Table 108 SNMP Parameters for the Controller
Field Description
Host Name Host name of the controller.
System Contact Name of the person who acts as the System Contact or administrator for the controller.
System Location String to describe the location of the controller.
Read Community Strings Community strings used to authenticate requests for SNMP versions before version 3.
NOTE: This is needed only if using SNMP v2c and is not needed if using version 3.