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Device > Certificate Management > OCSP Responder

Select
Device
Certificate Management
OCSP Responder
to define an Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) responder (server) to verify the revocation status of certificates.
Besides adding an OCSP responder, enabling OCSP requires the following tasks:
  • Enable communication between the firewall and the OCSP server: select
    Device
    Setup
    Management
    , select
    HTTP OCSP
    in Management Interface Settings, and then click
    OK
    .
  • If the firewall will decrypt outbound SSL/TLS traffic, optionally configure it to verify the revocation status of destination server certificates: select
    Device
    Setup
    Sessions
    , click
    Decryption Certificate Revocation Settings
    , select
    Enable
    in the OCSP settings, enter the
    Receive Timeout
    (the interval after which the firewall stops waiting for an OCSP response), and then click
    OK
    .
  • Optionally, to configure the firewall as an OCSP responder, add an Interface Management profile to the interface used for OCSP services. First, select
    Network
    Network Profiles
    Interface Mgmt
    , click
    Add
    , select
    HTTP OCSP
    , and then click
    OK
    . Second, select
    Network
    Interfaces
    , click the name of the interface that the firewall will use for OCSP services, select
    Advanced
    Other info
    , select the Interface Management profile you configured, and then click
    OK
    and
    Commit
    .
Enable an OCSP responder so that if a certificate was revoked, you are notified and can take appropriate action to establish a secure connection to the portal and gateways.
OCSP Responder Settings
Description
Name
Enter a name to identify the responder (up to 31 characters). The name is case-sensitive. It must be unique and use only letters, numbers, spaces, hyphens, and underscores.
Location
Select the scope in which the responder is available. In the context of a firewall that has more than one virtual system (vsys), select a vsys or select
Shared
(all virtual systems). In any other context, you can’t select the
Location
; its value is predefined as Shared. After you save the responder, you can’t change its
Location
.
Host Name
Enter the host name (recommended) or IP address of the OCSP responder. From this value, PAN-OS automatically derives a URL and adds it to the certificate being verified. If you configure the firewall as an OCSP responder, the host name must resolve to an IP address in the interface that the firewall uses for OCSP services.

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