Cisco Cisco Clean Access 3.5

Use the certificate request file to request a certificate from a certificate authority. When you order a 
certificate, you may be asked to copy and paste the contents of the 

.csr

 file into a CSR field of the 

order form. 

It is recommended that you create a backup of the private key used to generate the request. To do 
so, click the Export Private Key button in the Export Certificate Request form. You are prompted 
to either save or open the file. Save it to a secure location. The file is named 

smartmgr_key.crt

 by 

default. 

When you receive the signed certificate, you can import it into the Clean Access Manager as described 
in 

If you have a CA-signed certificate for the Clean Access Manager, you can import it into the Clean 
Access Manager as described here. 

Before starting, make sure that the root file and certificate file are in a file directory location accessible 
to the computer on which you are using the admin console. 

Open the SSL Certificate tab in the Administration > CCA Manager page. 

From the available actions list, click Import Certificate to open the import options form:

 

Click the Browse button next to the Certificate File field and locate the certificate file on your 
directory system. 

With the Certificate File field populated with the name and path to the file, click Import 
CA-Signed Certificate.