Configure a Certificate Profile

Obtain the certificate authority (CA) certificates you will assign.
Perform one of the following steps to obtain the CA certificates you will assign to the profile. You must assign at least one.
Generate a Certificate.
Export a certificate from your enterprise CA and then import it onto the firewall (see step to 3).
Identify the certificate profile.
Select
Device
Certificate Management
Certificate Profile
and click
Add
.
Enter a
Name
to identify the profile. The name is case-sensitive, must be unique and can use up to 63 characters on the firewall or up to 31 characters on Panorama that include only letters, numbers, spaces, hyphens, and underscores.
If the firewall has more than one virtual system (vsys), select a
Location
(vsys or
Shared
) for the certificate.
Assign one or more certificates.
Perform the following steps for each CA certificate:
In the CA Certificates table, click
Add
.
Select a
CA Certificate
. Alternatively, to import a certificate, click
Import
, enter a
Certificate Name
,
Browse
to the
Certificate File
you exported from your enterprise CA, and click
OK
.
(
Optional
) If the firewall uses OCSP to verify certificate revocation status, configure the following fields to override the default behavior. For most deployments, these fields do not apply.
By default, the firewall uses the “Authority Information Access” (AIA) information from the certificate to extract the OCSP responder information. To override the AIA information, enter a
Default OCSP URL
(starting with
http://
or
https://
).
By default, the firewall uses the certificate selected in the
CA Certificate
field to validate OCSP responses. To use a different certificate for validation, select it in the
OCSP Verify CA Certificate
field.
Click
OK
. The CA Certificates table displays the assigned certificate.
Define the methods for verifying certificate revocation status and the associated blocking behavior.
Select
Use CRL
and/or
Use OCSP
. If you select both, the firewall first tries OCSP and falls back to the CRL method only if the OCSP responder is unavailable.
Depending on the verification method, enter the
CRL Receive Timeout
and/or
OCSP Receive Timeout
. These are the intervals (1-60 seconds) after which the firewall stops waiting for a response from the CRL/OCSP service.
Enter the
Certificate Status Timeout
. This is the interval (1-60 seconds) after which the firewall stops waiting for a response from any certificate status service and applies any session-blocking logic you define. The
Certificate Status Timeout
relates to the OCSP/CRL
Receive Timeout
as follows:
If you enable both OCSP and CRL—The firewall registers a request timeout after the lesser of two intervals passes: the
Certificate Status Timeout
value or the aggregate of the two
Receive Timeout
values.
If you enable only OCSP—The firewall registers a request timeout after the lesser of two intervals passes: the
Certificate Status Timeout
value or the OCSP
Receive Timeout
value.
If you enable only CRL—The firewall registers a request timeout after the lesser of two intervals passes: the
Certificate Status Timeout
value or the CRL
Receive Timeout
value.
If you want the firewall to block sessions when the OCSP or CRL service returns a certificate revocation status of unknown, select
Block session if certificate status is unknown
. Otherwise, the firewall allows the sessions.
If you want the firewall to block sessions after it registers an OCSP or CRL request timeout, select
Block session if certificate status cannot be retrieved within timeout
. Otherwise, the firewall allows the sessions.
(
GlobalProtect only
) If you want the firewall to block sessions when the serial number attribute in the subject of the client certificate does not match the host ID that the GlobalProtect app reports for the endpoint, select
Block sessions if the certificate was not issued to the authenticating device
.
Click
OK
and
Commit