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Chapter 18 Certificates The following table describes the labels in this screen. Table 65 Certificates > My Certificates LABEL DESCRIPTION PKI Storage Space in Use This bar displays the percentage of the NWA's PKI storage space that is currently in use. When you are using 80% or less of the storage space, the bar is green. When the amount of space used is over 80%, the bar is red. When the bar is red, you should consider deleting expired or unnecessary certificates before adding more certificates. Replace This button displays when the NWA has the factory default certificate. The factory default certificate is common to all NWAs that use certificates. ZyXEL recommends that you use this button to replace the factory default certificate with one that uses your NWA's MAC address. Index This field displays the certificate index number. The certificates are listed in alphabetical order. Name This field displays the name used to identify this certificate. It is recommended that you give each certificate a unique name. Type This field displays what kind of certificate this is. REQ represents a certification request and is not yet a valid certificate. Send a certification request to a certification authority, which then issues a certificate. Use the My Certificate Import screen to import the certificate and replace the request. SELF represents a self-signed certificate. *SELF represents the default self-signed certificate, which the NWA uses to sign imported trusted remote host certificates. Subject Issuer Valid From Valid To Details Create Import CERT represents a certificate issued by a certification authority. This field displays identifying information about the certificate's owner, such as CN (Common Name), OU (Organizational Unit or department), O (Organization or company) and C (Country). It is recommended that each certificate have unique subject information. This field displays identifying information about the certificate's issuing certification authority, such as a common name, organizational unit or department, organization or company and country. With self-signed certificates, this is the same information as in the Subject field. This field displays the date that the certificate becomes applicable. The text displays in red and includes a Not Yet Valid! message if the certificate has not yet become applicable. This field displays the date that the certificate expires. The text displays in red and includes an Expiring! or Expired! message if the certificate is about to expire or has already expired. Click Details to open a screen with an in-depth list of information about the certificate. Click Create to go to the screen where you can have the NWA generate a certificate or a certification request. Click Import to open a screen where you can save the certificate that you have enrolled from a certification authority from your computer to the NWA. NWA-3160 Series User's Guide 223

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Chapter 18 Certificates
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The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 65
Certificates > My Certificates
LABEL
DESCRIPTION
PKI Storage
Space in Use
This bar displays the percentage of the NWA’s PKI storage space that is
currently in use. When you are using 80% or less of the storage space,
the bar is green. When the amount of space used is over 80%, the bar
is red. When the bar is red, you should consider deleting expired or
unnecessary certificates before adding more certificates.
Replace
This button displays when the NWA has the factory default certificate.
The factory default certificate is common to all NWAs that use
certificates. ZyXEL recommends that you use this button to replace the
factory default certificate with one that uses your NWA's MAC address.
Index
This field displays the certificate index number. The certificates are
listed in alphabetical order.
Name
This field displays the name used to identify this certificate. It is
recommended that you give each certificate a unique name.
Type
This field displays what kind of certificate this is.
REQ
represents a certification request and is not yet a valid certificate.
Send a certification request to a certification authority, which then
issues a certificate. Use the
My Certificate Import
screen to import
the certificate and replace the request.
SELF
represents a self-signed certificate.
*SELF
represents the default self-signed certificate, which the NWA
uses to sign imported trusted remote host certificates.
CERT
represents a certificate issued by a certification authority.
Subject
This field displays identifying information about the certificate’s owner,
such as
CN
(Common Name),
OU
(Organizational Unit or department),
O
(Organization or company) and
C
(Country). It is recommended that
each certificate have unique subject information.
Issuer
This field displays identifying information about the certificate’s issuing
certification authority, such as a common name, organizational unit or
department, organization or company and country. With self-signed
certificates, this is the same information as in the
Subject
field.
Valid From
This field displays the date that the certificate becomes applicable. The
text displays in red and includes a
Not Yet Valid!
message if the
certificate has not yet become applicable.
Valid To
This field displays the date that the certificate expires. The text displays
in red and includes an
Expiring!
or
Expired!
message if the certificate
is about to expire or has already expired.
Details
Click
Details
to open a screen with an in-depth list of information about
the certificate.
Create
Click
Create
to go to the screen where you can have the NWA generate
a certificate or a certification request.
Import
Click
Import
to open a screen where you can save the certificate that
you have enrolled from a certification authority from your computer to
the NWA.