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Receiving a certificate issued by a certificate authority

When a certificate authority (CA) receives a certificate request, it issues a new certificate that functions as a temporary placeholder for a CA-issued certificate. A keystore receives the certificate from the CA and generates a CA-signed personal certificate that WAS can use for SSL security.

The keystore must contain the certificate request that was created and sent to the CA. Also, the keystore must be able to access the certificate returned by the CA.

Supported configurations: To receive a certificate by , use the receiveCertificate command of the AdminTask object. For more information, see the PersonalCertificateCommands command group for the AdminTask object article.

WAS can receive only those certificates that are generated by a WAS certificate request. It cannot receive certificates created with certificate requests from other keystore tools, such as iKeyman and keyTool.

Complete the following steps in the console:

  1. Click Security > SSL certificate and key management > Manage endpoint security configurations > {Inbound | Outbound} > ssl_configuration > Key stores and certificates > [keystore].

  2. Under Additional Properties, click Personal certificates.

  3. Select a personal certificate.

  4. Click Receive a certificate from a certificate authority.

  5. Type the full path and name of the certificate file.

  6. Select a data type from the list.

  7. Click Apply and Save.


Results

The keystore contains a new personal certificate that is issued by a CA. The original certificate request is changed to a personal certificate.


What to do next

The SSL configuration is ready to use the new CA-signed personal certificate.


Subtopics


Related concepts

  • SSL configurations
  • Keystore configurations for SSL


    Related tasks

  • Create a certificate authority request

  • PersonalCertificateCommands command group for the AdminTask object