Generate a Key Pair and Certificate Signing Request
1) In the navigation bar, click System Configuration.
2) Click ACS Certificate Setup.
3) Click Generate Certificate Signing Request. CiscoSecure ACS displays the Generate new request table on the Generate Certificate Signing Request page. Fill out all of the requested fields.
4) In the Certificate subject box, type the values required by the CA you will submit the CSR to. Cisco Secure ACS requires that one of the values be CN, such as CN=acs01primary. You can specify multiple values. To do so, separate the values with commas. For example: CN=www.ipsca.com, O=ipsca, C=SP, S=Madrid, L=Madrid. Common Name, Organization, Country, State, & Locality (City). An Organization Unit (OU) is optional.
This command will prompt for the following X.509 attributes of the certificate:
Country Name (C):
Use the two-letter code without punctuation for country.
State or Province (S):
Spell out the state completely; do not abbreviate the state or province name.
Locality or City (L):
The Locality field is the city or town name.
Organization (O):
If your company or department has an &, @, or any other symbol using the shift key in its name, you must spell out the symbol or omit it to enroll. Example: XYZ Corporation
Organizational Unit (OU):
This field is optional; but can be used to help identify certificates registered to an organization. The Organizational Unit (OU) field is the name of the department or organization unit making the request.
Common Name (CN):
The Common Name is the Host + Domain Name. It looks like "www.company.com" or "company.com".
Note: When prompted for your "first- and lastname", enter the desired Common Name.
SSL Certificates can only be used on Web servers using the Common Name specified during enrollment. For example, a certificate for the domain "domain.com" will receive a warning if accessing a site named "www.domain.com" or "secure.domain.com", because "www.domain.com" and "secure.domain.com" are different from "domain.com".
ipsCA certificates can only be used on Web servers using the Common Name specified during enrollment. For example, a certificate for the domain "domain.com" will receive a warning if accessing a site named "www.domain.com" or "secure.domain.com", because "www.domain.com" and "secure.domain.com" are different from "domain.com".
Please do not enter your email address, challenge password or an optional company name when generating the CSR.
5) In the Private key file box, type the full directory path and name of the file in which the private key is saved, for example, c:privateKeyFile.pem.
6) In the Private key password box, type the private key password that you have would like to use. ipsCA does not have access to this password and cannot recover it.
7) In the Retype private key password box, retype the private key password.
8) In the Key length list, choose 1024 bits.
9) From the Digest to sign with list, select SHA1.
10) Click Submit. CiscoSecure ACS displays a CSR in the display area, on the right, under a banner that reads: Now your certificate signing request is ready. You can copy and paste it into any certification authority enrollment tool. You have just created a key pair and a CSR.
11) To copy and paste the information into the enrollment form, open the file in a text editor that does not add extra characters (Notepad or Vi are recommended).
12) Go to Enrollment. When enrolling for the SSL Certificate you will be asked to choose a server vendor, choose Apache. This will allow a certificate that is compatible with the Cisco ACS.
SSL CERTIFICATE INSTALLATION ON CISCO ACS 3.2
ipsCA will email you your certificate.Please, rename yourdomain.txt to yourdomain.cer.
1. In the navigation bar, click System Configuration.
4. Select the Read certificate from file option, and then type the full directory path and filename of the certificate file in the Certificate file box.
5. In the Private Key file box, type the full directory path and name of the file that contains the private key.
6. In the Private Key password box, type the private key password.
