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UTM: How to obtain a Certificate from a Windows Certificate Authority (CA)
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This article describes how to obtain a certificate from an internal CA for the purpose of SonicWALL Web Management.
Deployment Prerequisites.
Microsoft Windows Active Directory Services installed and configured. Microsoft Certificate Services installed and configured.
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 installed and configure.
Deployment Steps:
Step Step Step Step Step How 1. Exporting the CA Certificate from the Active Directory Server 2. Importing the CA Certificate onto the SonicWALL 3. Creating a New Signing Request in SonicWALL Appliance 4. Requesting certificate for the new signing Request by the MS Certificate Authority 5. Validating the Certificate on the SonicWALL Appliance to Test
Procedure Step 1: Exporting the Root CA Certificate from the Active Directory (AD) Server
1. In the AD server, launch the Certificate Authority application by Start > Run > certsrv.msc. 2. Right click on the CA you created and select Properties. 3. On the General tab, click the View Certificate button. 4. On the Details tab, select Copy to File. 5. Follow through the wizard, and select the DER Encoded binay X.509 (.cer) format. 6. Click browse and specify a path and filename to save the certificate. 7. Click on the Next button and click on Finish
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3. Fill out the CSR form in SonicWALL device and click on Generate. For the most part, you can leave the drop-down boxes to their defaults and fill out each field as suggested by its corresponding drop-down box. An example is below:
4. Refresh the page and the type will be changed to Pending Request.
5. Click on the Export button and save the file to your local system using whatever name you wish this file will be submitted to the MS CA.
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Step 4: Requesting a certificate for the CSR from the MS Certificate Authority
If the MS CA server is running IIS (and the admin has allowed access to this interface), the easiest way to submit the firewalls CSR is via web browser. 1. Open a browser and enter http://x.x.x.x/certsrv/ (replace x.x.x.x with the IP address of your MS CA server). You will be presented with the certificate services interface (see below). 2. Select the task Request a Certificate
4. Select Submit a certificate request by using a base-64-encoded CMC or PKCS #10 file, or submit a renewal request by using a base-64-encoded PKCS #7 file.
5. Copy and paste the contents of the CSR in the Saved Request box. 6. Select Web Server under Certificate Template.
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7. Select DER encoded and click on Download Certificate. Save the file to your local system using whatever name you wish this file will be imported into SonicWALL appliance.
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3. Browse for the downloaded file from the CA and click on Upload
4. Once the certificate has been uploaded, the certificate will show Type as Local Certificate and Validated as YES
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How to Test:
Now that a signed certificate has been imported into the SonicWALL, it can be used for HTTPS management of SonicWALL interfaces as well as for SSL-VPN. To set the imported certificate as the management certificate, perform the following steps: Navigate to System > Administration Under the Web Management Settings section, select the imported certificate under Certificate Selection. Click on Accept to save the changes.
When logging into the SonicWALL after importing the signed certificate you may receive the following browser errors:
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Error : "The security certificate was issued by a company you have not chosen to trust. View the certificate to determine whether you want to trust the certifying authority" - You get this error because the issuing CA certificate is not in the certificate store of the browser. To resolve it, install the certificate in the certificate store of the browser. Error: "The name on the security certificate is invalid or does not match the name of the site" - You get this error because you are accessing the site using a different name from the certificate Common Name (CN) you entered when creating the Certificate Signing Request (CSR). In the above example the SonicWALL is being accessed using an IP address although the CN in the certificate is sonicwall.local (see above) : You have two options to overcome this error: 1. When creating the CSR enter the CN as 192.168.168.168 2. Map the IP address of the SonicWALL to the CN.
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