What are the essential steps involved in creating a CSR for NetScreen ScreenOS
To generate a CSR, you will need to create a key pair for your server. These two items are a digital certificate key pair and cannot be separated. If you lose your public/private key file or your password and generate a new one, your SSL Certificate will no longer match. You will have to request a new SSL Certificate and may be charged.
The CSR needs to contain the following attributes:
Common Name – Must match the URL you plan to secure exactly – is usually your fully-qualified domain name (e.g. devel.ssl247.co.uk or mail.devel.ssl247.co.uk). Remember the www. is important – include it if you want to secure https://www.yoursite.com & exclude it if you want to secure https://yoursite.com.
Organisation - The legal (officially registered) name of your organization/company include Inc., LLP., Pvt, Plc. Ltd. SARL., etc.
Organisational unit - The name of your department within the organization (this is often "IT," "Web," or is just left blank).
City/locality - The city or town in which your organization is located.
State/province - The state in which your organization is located.
Country - Click here for the official list of ISO country codes for this field.
Note: Certificates can only be used on Web servers using the Common Name specified during enrollment. For example, a certificate for the domain "domain.com" will receive a warning if accessing a site named "www.domain.com" or "secure.domain.com", because "www.domain.com" and "secure.domain.com" are different from "domain.com".
We recommend that you contact the ScreenOS vendor for additional information.
Generating a Key Pair and CSR
- Open the WebUI
- From the Options menu, click Configuration, and then Date/Time.
Note: If the Options menu is not available, look for the Configuration option - From the Date/Time page, click Sync Click with Client. Ensure that Automatically adjust clock for daylight savings changes is selected.
- From the options menu, click Network and then click DNS.
- Enter the Hostname of the device is the Hostname textbox, and then enter the Domain name of the device is the Domain name textbox. This two together will become the Common Name.
- From the options menu, click Objects, click Certificates, and then click New.
- Fill out all of the necessary fields and then click Generate.
- You have just created a key pair and a CSR.
- To copy and paste the information into the enrollment form, open the file in a text editor that does not add extra characters (Notepad or Vi are recommended).
- Go to Enrollment.
