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#Cisco asa asdm install
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#Cisco asa asdm password

You can give it any name you want but remember it because weвЂ™ll refer to it later.Д¬hoose to вЂњimport the identity certificate from a fileвЂќ.Д®nter the password you used when you created the pkcs12 file (explained earlier in this post).Д«rowse to the pkcs12 file you create earlier. The ASA refers to certificates as вЂњTrustPointsвЂќ. Navigate to Configuration > Device Management > Certificate Management > Identity Certificates.

#Cisco asa asdm install

If this comes back and says вЂњCertificate install failedвЂќ then make sure youвЂ™re certificate is in pem format when pasting in and make sure itвЂ™s an intermediary CA cert and not your primary cert. Make sure the expiry date is far into the future (at least greater than your certificate). You can copy the whole thing including the вЂњBEGINвЂќ and вЂњENDвЂќ lines in your certificate.Д¬lick install certificate and this should then install and you should see your CA certificate in the list of certificates. Then copy and paste your intermediate CA certificate in the box. Navigate to Configuration > Device Management > Certificate Management > CA Certificates.

I am a huge fan of the CLI but for some reason I never feel comfortable doing certificate stuff at the CLI. Because this is a wildcard cert we see the *. which will match any of the domains. This indicates what the URL is allowed to be for the cert to think itвЂ™s a match. Openssl x509 -in cert.pem -inform pem -noout -text You can view the pem certificate contents by doing the following command: Remember this because weвЂ™ll use it later when importing the certificate. Here it will also ask you for a new password to encrypt the file. $ openssl pkcs12 -export -inkey privkey.pem -in cert.pem -name 'My Wildcard Cert' -out cert.p12 We can use this command to do the conversion: We will be using a linux system to convert the key + certificate into one file. In the ASA we will eventually choose to import a certificate from a PKCS12 format file which has the certificate and private key in it together. There a ways to convert your certs to pem format but we wonвЂ™t cover that here. WeвЂ™ll need all the certs to be in this format for best results. Files that end in the suffix вЂ.pemвЂ™ or вЂ.keyвЂ™ usually are in this format. Does it start with вЂњBEGIN CERTIFICATEвЂќ and end in вЂњEND CERTIFICATEвЂќ? If so then that certificate is likely in вЂњpemвЂќ format. A quick understanding of the types of certificate filesД®xamine the certs you have.

The intermediary certificate (in pem format)ДЇor testing weвЂ™ll use a Cisco ASA that allows a user to go to it using a browser.

The wildcard certificate (in pem format).

The certificate private key file (in pem format).

#Cisco asa asdm how to

In this post we will be covering how to install a wildcard certificate on a Cisco ASA. There is another post that covers how to install a basic SSL certificate on a Cisco ASA. This differs from a normal SSL certificate that specifically indicates one or more domain names in the subject field. If we had a wildcard certificate for it means the certificate will be valid for, ,, and. A wildcard SSL certificate is where the SSL certificate is good for both the root domain and all subdomains.