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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
    PKCS12
    certificate 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
    PKCS12
    as 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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