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Carlos_Colon_24
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Oct 19, 2016

Renewing SSL certificate for SSL offload - question regarding CSR creation

We are doing SSL Offload (encrypt to clients, plaintext to servers) using a cert that needs to be renewed. The server admin sent us the .crt and .key files that apparently he generated from the serve...
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  • AJ_01_135899's avatar
    AJ_01_135899
    Oct 19, 2016

    If you have both the key and the cert, it shouldn't matter that it was generated on the server itself. Just import them both and configure the Client SSL profile to apply to the VIP.

     

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Carlos_Colon_24
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Oct 19, 2016

Thank you, AJ! There are intermediate certs in the existing Client SSL profile. One weird thing is that the cert is from InCommon but the chain is from Thawte. Not sure why it was setup that way.