Import a Certificate and Private Key

From the enterprise CA, export the certificate and private key that the firewall will use for authentication.
When exporting a private key, you must enter a passphrase to encrypt the key for transport. Ensure the management system can access the certificate and key files. When importing the key onto the firewall, you must enter the same passphrase to decrypt it.
Select
Device
Certificate Management
Certificates
Device Certificates
.
If the firewall has more than one virtual system (vsys), select a
Location
(vsys or
Shared
) for the certificate.
Click
Import
and enter a
Certificate Name
. The name is case-sensitive and can have up to 63 characters on the firewall or up to 31 characters on Panorama. It must be unique and use only letters, numbers, hyphens, and underscores.
To make the certificate available to all virtual systems, select the
Shared
check box. This check box appears only if the firewall supports multiple virtual systems.
Enter the path and name of the
Certificate File
received from the CA, or
Browse
to find the file.
Select a
File Format
:
Encrypted Private Key and Certificate (PKCS12)
—This is the default and most common format, in which the key and certificate are in a single container (
Certificate File
). If a hardware security module (HSM) will store the private key for this certificate, select the
Private key resides on Hardware Security Module
check box.
Base64 Encoded Certificate (PEM)
—You must import the key separately from the certificate. If a hardware security module (HSM) stores the private key for this certificate, select the
Private key resides on Hardware Security Module
check box and skip the next step. Otherwise, select the
Import Private Key
check box, enter the
Key File
or
Browse
to it, then continue to the next step.
(
Panorama managed firewalls
) You are required to
Import Private Key
if you enabled
Block Private Key Export
when the certificate was generated to successfully push configuration changes from the Panorama management server to managed firewalls.
(
SD-WAN IKEv2 Certificate Authentication Support
) (
Beginning with SD-WAN 3.2.0 Release
)
Multiple Certificates (.tar)
—Contains multiple certificates archived in a tar format.
Use CSV file to bulk import the certificates into the Panorama management server. Follow these steps if you select
Multiple Certificates (.tar)
.
Download Sample CSV
to download and save the
Certificates.CSV
template. Populate the template with certificate related information: certificate name, format, passphrase, block private key, and file name.
Following is a sample
Certificates.CSV
:
Enter the certificate
file name
with an extension. The
file name
should exactly match the certificate that you will be uploading to the device.
All the certificate fields are case-sensitive except the
format
and
passphrase
field.
To import multiple certificates, archive all the certificates and the populated
Certificates.CSV
file in .tar format.
Browse
and select a
.tar file
to bulk import the
Certificate File
. Certificate format .PKCS12 is supported. The size of the archive(.tar) file should be less than 10MB. Ensure that the extension of the tar file is
.tar
.
All the certificates must be signed by the same CA within the SD-WAN VPN cluster. You must import the CA certificate along with the device certificate. Device certificate must be directly signed by the root CA (no intermediate certificates are allowed).
You must commit after bulk import for the certificates to be available for further configuration.
Enter and re-enter (confirm) the
Passphrase
used to encrypt the private key.
Click
OK
. The Device Certificates page displays the imported certificate.