ZyXEL Communications P-870HW-I User Manual

P-870HW-I1 User’s Guide

Chapter 13 Certificates

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Figure 94   Security > Certificates > My Certificates

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 73   Security > Certificates > My Certificates

PKI Storage 

Space in Use

This bar displays the percentage of the ZyXEL Device’s PKI storage space that is 

currently in use. The bar turns from green to red when the maximum is being 

approached. When the bar is red, you should consider deleting expired or 

unnecessary certificates before adding more certificates.

Replace

This button displays when the ZyXEL Device has the factory default certificate. 

The factory default certificate is common to all ZyXEL Device that use certificates. 

ZyXEL recommends that you use this button to replace the factory default 

certificate with one that uses your ZyXEL Device's MAC address.

#

This field displays the certificate index number. The certificates are listed in 

alphabetical order. 

Name

This field displays the name used to identify this certificate. It is recommended that 

you give each certificate a unique name. 

Type

This field displays what kind of certificate this is. 
REQ represents a certification request and is not yet a valid certificate. Send a 

certification request to a certification authority, which then issues a certificate. Use 

the My Certificate Import screen to import the certificate and replace the request.
 SELF represents a self-signed certificate. 
*SELF represents the default self-signed certificate, which the ZyXEL Device uses 

to sign imported trusted remote host certificates. 
CERT represents a certificate issued by a certification authority.

Subject

This field displays identifying information about the certificate’s owner, such as CN 

(Common Name), OU (Organizational Unit or department), O (Organization or 

company) and C (Country). It is recommended that each certificate have unique 

subject information. 

Issuer

This field displays identifying information about the certificate’s issuing certification 

authority, such as a common name, organizational unit or department, 

organization or company and country. With self-signed certificates, this is the same 

information as in the Subject field.