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WiNG How-To Guide Digital Certificates - Configuration

Saturday, February 15, 2014 6:55 PM
The following section outlines the configuration steps required to add a Digital Certificate issued from a
Certification Authority onto a RF Switch:
1)  Generating Certificate Request [Section 3.1]:
2)  Importing Signed Certificates [Section 3.2]:

3)  Assigning Trustpoints [Section 3.3]

Generating a Certificate Request:
Before a certificate can be installed into a trustpoint on the RF Switch, a certificate request must be generated. A certificate request will generate a new certificate key and prepare a certificate signing request (CSR) which can be entered into a Certificate Authority to generate a server certificate.
The CSR contains information identifying the RF Switch including information such as Company, Organization, Department, Country and Locality. The CSR also include specific network level information about the RF Switch such as IP Address, hostname and fully qualified domain name.When a certificate signing request is generated, the RF Switch will generate a Base64 PKCS#10 binary encoded text which can be saved to the clipboard or file. The PKCS#10 file can then be uploaded to a CA or the PKCS#10 file opened in a text editor and the content copied and pasted into a form on the CA.
Web UI Configuration Example:
The following configuration example will demonstrate how to create a trustpoint and generate a Certificate

Signing Request on the RF Switch using the Web UI:






Importing Signed Certificates:

Once a certificate has been issued form a CA, it will need to be imported along with a CA root certificate into the trustpoint on the RF Switch. Most CAs provide the ability to save an issued certificate in numerous formats and care needs to be made to ensure that the issued server and CA root certificates are saved using Base64 encoding. The Base64 encoded server certificate and CA root certificate files can then be uploaded into the RF Switch.

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