CSR instead of real certificate in SSL client profile

[Livius]

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 question is if is there any impact in the functionality in having a CSR + root CA rather than the real one?

[David_M]

and this is working fine? how will the client see the CN and get the public key and check for cert validity and stuff like that?

[Bryan_T_]

It's should be a signed public key certificate, not a CSR in the client profile. I'm surprised the BigIP even let this happen.

[Livius]

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?

[Bryan_T_]

yes that's correct.