Pushing an Intermediate Certificate to a Device

In the case of intermediate CA certificates or trust certificate renewal, the same should be pushed to the device in order to update the trust chain for the SSL communication. If this is not done, the SSL handshake will fail.

To push an intermediate certificate:

  1. Go to (Menu) > CLM > CERTIFICATE ACTION > Push to Device > Intermediate.
    The Intermediate Certificate page is displayed.
  2. To push a certificate, under Common Name, double click the required certificate.
    The certificate topology view is displayed.
  3. On the certificate topology page, click Add Connector.
  4. Enter/select the General Information required for adding a connector.
    Table 1. Field descriptions for the General Information section
    Field Description
    Category Select the category from the dropdown list. The possible categories are:
    • ADC
    • Cloud
    • Firewall
    • Server
    • Internal
    Vendor Select the desired vendor from the dropdown list. The list of vendors for each of the categories are listed below:
    • ADC - F5, F5XC
    • Cloud - Azure
    • Firewall - Fortinet
    • Internal - Cloud Connector
    • Server - Cisco Call manager, IBM client, JBOss, Linux Server, MQServer, MS SQL, MySQL, Nginx, PingFederate, RabbitMQ, VMware, vCenter, Windows Apache, Windows IBM Client, Windows MQClient, Windows MQServer, Windows Tomcat, Windows WebLogic
    Connector Name Enter a name for the connector that is descriptive enough when viewed within the Certificate topology.
    Description Enter the description in this field.
  5. From the SSL Template section, to select a device listed under Available devices, click .
    The selected device is listed under the Selected devices list.