: Managing Certificate Lifecycle Settings
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Managing Certificate Lifecycle Settings

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Managing Certificate Lifecycle Settings

Managing certificate lifecycle settings helps you control how certificates are discovered, renewed, and retired in Next-Gen Trust Security. These settings apply globally and affect how certificates appear and behave in the Certificate Inventory.

Access Certificate Lifecycle Settings

  1. Sign in to Next-Gen Trust Security.
  2. Click Configuration > Certificate Lifecycle.
This opens the Certificate lifecycle page, which is organized into the sections described below.

Certificate Discovery

This section lets you manage certificates that were previously retired and intentionally excluded from rediscovery.
You can clear the Do not rediscover list to allow previously retired certificates to be discovered again.
Click Clear list to remove all certificates from the list.
Tip: If you need to recover a specific certificate instead of clearing the entire list, see recovering retired certificates.

Certificate Expiration Notification Policy

This section lets you configure notification rules associated with your certificate inventory.
Enable Certificate Inventory Monitoring. When this setting is off, Next-Gen Trust Security doesn't send any notifications.
Next-Gen Trust Security provides three notification rule thresholds. Each threshold specifies the number of days before a certificate expires that a notification is sent. You must configure all three thresholds.
For each threshold, specify how many days in advance of a certificate’s expiration Next-Gen Trust Security should send the notification.
Each day at a set time, the system checks the certificate inventory. If a certificate’s expiration date matches a threshold and a notification hasn’t already been sent for that threshold, the system sends a notification.

Certificate Retirement

This section controls how long retired certificates remain available in the system before they are permanently removed.
You can specify the number of days to retain retired certificates, which helps balance operational recovery needs with inventory cleanup.