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Livius
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Sep 01, 2020

CSR instead of real certificate in SSL client profile

Hi guys,   I recently have seen at a customer a SSL profile which was referencing a certificate signing request and key + CA rather than the real certificate. While this seems strange, my questi...
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It shows "RSA Certificate, Key & Certificate Signing Request" whereas other certificates show only "RSA Certificate & Key". Does that actually mean that the CSR was generated on the LB itself?

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Bryan_T_
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Sep 02, 2020

yes that's correct.

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    B_S
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    Jul 11, 2023

    Hi Bryan,

    I have the same situation, showing me "RSA Certificate, Key & Certificate Signing Request" for a specific certificate. I have no other Content like that on our LB but only "RSA Certificate, Key " . What I've done was just to renew a certificate which was going to expire, sent it to be signed by our PKI and import the new certificate. I don't understand why the CSR is still there and how can I get rid of it. Is this happening because something wrong on my side when I generated the CSR or by my colleague who signed the certificate on PKI?

     

    Thank you!

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      Livius
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      Oct 09, 2023

      It is likely that your colleague who generated the csr did it from the LB directly then uploaded the signed csr (the certificate - which include the cert+key) with the same name to the system identifies it as a "bundle".

      You can simply remove it by clicking on the "bundle", go to the CSR tab and delete from there.