Submitting CSR to Certificate Authority

After you have generated a CSR, you must submit it to the respective certificate authority (CA) for signing.

To submit CSR to CA:

  1. Go to (Menu) icon > CERT+.
    The CERT+ left navigation pane appears.
  2. On the Certificate list view, locate the CSR you generated and click the Common Name of the certificate.

    The certificate topology screen opens.

  3. Add a CA connector to the certificate topology as explained in the Section, Add Certificate Authority Connector to Certificate.
  4. Click Submit to trigger the request.

    Once the submit action is triggered, the Submit popup window appears. Add comments if needed, and then click Yes. If the approval required option is enabled in CA Policy, the request goes to Approve and Implementation stages.

  5. Click Approve.
  6. Click the Schedule later button if the workflow request has to be approved automatically in the future.
  7. Enter the comments in the field.
  8. Click Yes.
    Once approved, you can see the Implement option in the holistic view.
  9. Click Implement.

    The Implement pop-up window appears.

    • Click the Schedule later button if the workflow request has to be implemented automatically in the future.
  10. Enter the comments in the field.
  11. Click Yes.
    CSR Submission to CA is in progress.
  12. Once the CSR submission is successful, the request state will be changed to Submit certificate - retrieval in progress state.

    If the enrollment request is compliant with conditions defined and auto-approval enabled in the targeted CA, the certificate is fetched in a few seconds.

    If auto-approval disabled in the targeted CA, the user has to be logged into CA and approve the request.

    Once the certificate is issued successfully, the certificate is retrieved into AppViewX.