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Managing certificates

Table 56
Certificate and key export information (cont’d.)

Parameter

Description

Key and certificate
file name

The name of the file on the file exchange
server. If you are using a format that saves the
private key and certificate in the same file, you
are prompted for the combined file name. If
you are using a format that saves the private
key and certificate in separate files, you are
prompted separately for the key file name and
the certificate file name.

[FTP user name
and password]

For FTP, SCP, and SFTP, the user name and
password to access the file exchange server.
The default is

anonymous

.

Figure 20 "Exporting a certificate and private key" (page
320)

shows sample output for the

/cfg/cert #/export

command. For more information about the Certificate menu
commands, see

“Managing and viewing certificates and keys”

(page 302)

.

Figure 20
Exporting a certificate and private key

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Generating a test certificate

You can generate a self-signed certificate and private key for testing
purposes.

The certificate is generated immediately after you have provided all
the required information. However, the test certificate and key are not
activated until you apply the changes.

Nortel Secure Network Access Switch

Using the Command Line Interface

NN47230-100

03.01

Standard

28 July 2008

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