Generating a Certificate Signing Request

To get a valid certificate from a widely accepted CA such as RapidSSL, Verisign, or Thawte, you must generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) for your SMA appliance.

To generate a certificate signing request

1. Navigate to the System > Certificates page.
2. Click Generate CSR to generate a CSR and Certificate Key. The Generate Certificate Signing Request dialog box is displayed.
3. Fill in the fields in the dialog box and click Accept.
4. If all information is entered correctly, a csr.zip file is created. Save this .zip file to disk. You need to provide the contents of the server.csr file, found within this zip file, to the CA.