HP VPN Firewall Appliances VPN Configuration Guide

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Recommended configuration procedure for automatic request
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1. Creating a PKI entity
Required.
Create a PKI entity and configure the identity information.
A certificate is the binding of a public key and the identity information of
an entity, where the DN shows the identity information of the entity. A CA
identifies a certificate applicant uniquely by an entity DN.
The DN settings of an entity must be compliant to the CA certificate issue
policy. Otherwise, the certificate request might be rejected. You must
know the policy to determine which entity parameters are mandatory or
optional.
2. Creating a PKI domain
Required.
Create a PKI domain, setting the certificate request mode to Auto.
Before requesting a PKI certificate, an entity needs to be configured with
some enrollment information, which is referred to as a PKI domain.
A PKI domain is intended only for convenience of reference by other
applications like IKE and SSL, and has only local significance.
3. Destroying the RSA key pair
Optional.
Destroy the existing RSA key pair and the corresponding local certificate.
If the certificate to be retrieved contains an RSA key pair, you must
destroy the existing RSA key pair. Otherwise, the retrieving operation will
fail.
4. Retrieving and displaying a
certificate
Optional.
Retrieve an existing certificate and display its information.
IMPORTANT:
• Before retrieving a local certificate in online mode, be sure to
complete LDAP server configuration.
• If a PKI domain already has a CA certificate, you cannot retrieve
another CA certificate for it. This helps avoid inconsistency between
the certificate and registration information due to related
configuration changes. To retrieve a new CA certificate, use the pki
delete-certificate command to delete the existing CA certificate and
local certificate first.
5. Retrieving and displaying a
CRL
Optional.
Retrieve a CRL and display its contents.
Creating a PKI entity
1. From the navigation tree, select VPN > Certificate Management > Entity.