Personal certificate requests collection

Use this page to manage personal certificate requests. Personal certificate requests are temporary place holders for certificates that will be signed by a certificate authority (CA).

To view this administrative console page, click Security > SSL certificate and key management. Under Configuration settings, click Manage endpoint security configurations > {Inbound | Outbound} > ssl_configuration. Under Related items, click Key stores and certificates > key store. Under Additional Properties, click Personal certificate requests.

A private key is generated during the certificate request generation, but only the certificate is sent to the CA. The CA generates a new certificate, signed by the CA. This can be added in the Personal Certificates panel.

Table 1. Personal certificate requests buttons . This table lists the personal certificate requests buttons.
Button Resulting action
New Creates a personal certificate request that can be given to a certificate authority to complete.
Delete Deletes a personal certificate request.
Extract Extracts a personal certificate request. Only one certificate request can be selected at a time.
Query Queries a personal certificate request. Only one certificate request can be selected at a time.
Avoid trouble:
  • Any changes made to this page are permanent.
  • A Personal certificate request places a valid self-signed certificate in the keystore. This placeholder certificate is later replaced with the certificate that the Certificate Authority signs and returns. You must have a default certificate assigned on the SSL configuration. If a default certificate is not assign, when multiple personal certificates exist in a keystore and no default certificate is selected, the selection of a certificate within the SSL configuration keystore is random, which might cause SSL handshake errors.

Key label

Specifies the alias that represents the personal certificate request in the key store.

Any blank space is removed from the certificate alias when the certificate request is created. A certificate alias with blank space might cause compatibility issues among Java™ versions.