Nortel Networks BCM50a Network Router User Manual


 
Chapter 14 Certificates 269
BCM50a Integrated Router Configuration — Basics
Trusted CAs
Click CERTIFICATES, Trusted CAs to open the Trusted CAs screen, shown
in Figure 86. This screen displays a summary list of certificates of the certification
authorities that you have set the BCM50a Integrated Router to accept as trusted.
The BCM50a Integrated Router accepts any valid certificate signed by a
certification authority on this list as being trustworthy; thus you do not need to
import any certificate that is signed by one of these certification authorities.
Certificate in
PEM (Base-64)
Encoded Format
This read-only text box displays the certificate or certification request
in Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM) format. PEM uses 64 ASCII
characters to convert the binary certificate into a printable form.
You can copy and paste a certification request into a certification
authority Web page, an e-mail that you send to the certification
authority or a text editor and save the file on a management computer
for later manual enrollment.
You can copy and paste a certificate into an e-mail to send to friends
or colleagues or you can copy and paste a certificate into a text editor
and save the file on a management computer for later distribution
(through floppy disk, for example).
Export Click this button and then Save in the File Download screen. The
Save As screen displays, browse to the location that you want to use
and click Save.
Apply Click Apply to save your changes to the BCM50a Integrated Router.
You can only change the name, except in the case of a self-signed
certificate, which you can also set to be the default self-signed
certificate that signs the imported trusted remote host certificates.
Cancel Click Cancel to quit and return to the My Certificates screen.
Table 66 My Certificate details
Label Description