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    Other Supported Actions to Manage Certificates

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    Other Supported Actions to Manage Certificates

    After you generate the certificate, its details display on the page and the following actions are available:
    Other Supported Actions to Manage Certificates
    Description
    Delete
    Select the certificate and Delete it.
    If the firewall has a decryption policy, you cannot delete a certificate for which usage is set to Forward Trust Certificate or Forward Untrust Certificate. To change the certificate usage, see Manage Default Trusted Certificate Authorities.
    Revoke
    Select the certificate that you want to revoke, and click Revoke. The certificate will be instantly set to revoked status. No commit is required.
    Renew
    In case a certificate expires or is about to expire, select the corresponding certificate and click Renew. Set the validity period (in days) for the certificate and click OK.
    If the firewall is the CA that issued the certificate, the firewall replaces it with a new certificate that has a different serial number but the same attributes as the old certificate.
    If an external certificate authority (CA) signed the certificate and the firewall uses the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) to verify certificate revocation status, the firewall uses the OCSP responder information to update the certificate status
    Import
    Import a certificate and configure as follows:
    • Enter Certificate Name to identify the certificate.
    • Browse to the certificate file. If you import a PKCS12certificate and private key, a single file contains both. If you import a PEM certificate, the file contains only the certificate.
    • Select the File Format for the certificate.
    • Select Private key resides on Hardware Security Module if an HSM stores the key for this certificate. For HSM details, see Device > Setup > HSM.
    • Import Private Key as needed (PEM format only). If you selected PKCS12as the certificate File Format, the selected Certificate File includes the key. If you selected the PEM format, browse to the encrypted private key file (generally named *.key). For both formats, enter the Passphrase and Confirm Passphrase.
      When you import a certificate and select Import Private Key, select Block Private Key Export to prevent any administrators, including Superusers, from exporting the private key.
    When you import a certificate to a Palo Alto Networks firewall or Panorama server that is in FIPS-CC mode, you must import the certificate as a Base64-Encoded Certificate (PEM) and you must encrypt the private key with AES. Also, you must use SHA1 as the passphrase-based key derivation method.
    To import a PKCS12 certificate, convert the certificate to the PEM format (using a tool such as OpenSSL); ensure that the password phrase you use during conversion is at least six characters.
    Export
    Select the certificate you want to export, click Export, and select a File Format:
    • Encrypted Private Key and Certificate (PKCS12)—The exported file will contain both the certificate and private key.
    • Base64 Encoded Certificate (PEM)—If you want to export the private key also, select Export Private Key and enter a Passphrase and Confirm Passphrase.
    • Binary Encoded Certificate (DER)—You can export only the certificate, not the key: ignore Export Private Key and passphrase fields.
    Import HA Key
    The HA keys must be swapped across both the firewalls peers; that is the key from firewall 1 must be exported and then imported in to firewall 2 and vice versa.
    To import keys for high availability (HA), click Import HA Key and Browse to specify the key file for import.
    To export keys for HA, click Export HA Key and specify a location to save the file.
    Export HA Key
    Define the usage of the certificate
    In the Name column, select the certificate and then select options appropriate for how you plan to use the certificate.
    PDF/CSV
    Administrative roles with a minimum of read-only access can export the managed certificate configuration table as PDF/CSV. You can apply filters to create more specific table configuration outputs for things such as audits. Only visible columns in the web interface will be exported. See Configuration Table Export.

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