Sometimes there can be some certificates that exist between the newly created NetScaler cert and the Root CA Certificate. These certificates ‘in the middle’ are known as intermediary or subordinate certificates and form a link or ‘chain’ between the root CA certificate and our newly created NetScaler certificate. For example: When some operating systems don’t […]
Submitting the CSR to a 3rd party CA – Comodo Free SSL We now need to take our CSR created in the previous section and submit that to a 3rd Party Certificate Authority or CA to verify our CSR and provide us with a certificate response we can combine with our CSR and generate the […]
We will now take the Certificate response file (CRT file) from our 3rd party Certificate Authority (CA) and install it onto the NetScaler device, then using both the CRT and Private key to combine and finally create a fully functional NetScaler certificate. Step Description Screenshot 1 Expand Traffic Management > SSL > SSL Files Click […]
Step Description Screenshot 1 Log into the NetScaler web interface http://192.168.1.50 2 Now that our private key has been created we need to create a Certificate Signing Request and sign it with our private key Expand SSL > SSL Files Click CSRs Then click Create Certificate Signing Request (CSR) 3 In our example we will […]
Step Description Screenshot 1 Log into the NetScaler web interface http://192.168.1.50 2 Expand traffic management Right Click SSL And select Enable Feature Note: The yellow exclamation will disappear when the feature is enabled Disabled Enabled 3 Expand SSL > SSL Files > and click the button Create RSA Key 4 In this example we will […]
Error: Double clicking a .p7b file on Windows 2008 results in “Filetype is unknown. Cannot Open” Resolution: Copy the file locally first then reopen the certificate file. We were trying to open this file directly from a network shared drive.