Uploading an External Certificate to SCM

You can upload your SSL certificates (SSL certificates that have been purchased and issued on other platforms) to the CCM service for centralized management.

This topic describes how to upload a local (external) SSL certificate onto CCM.

Prerequisites

You have prepared the following files to be uploaded:

Certificate file in PEM encoding format (the file name extension is PEM or CRT).
Certificate private key in PEM encoding format (the file name extension is KEY).

Currently, only certificates in PEM format can be uploaded to CCM. Certificates in other formats can be uploaded only after they are converted to certificates in the PEM format.
The private key you want to upload cannot be protected by a password.

Constraints

Expired certificates and certificates whose certificate chain length is 1 cannot be uploaded.

Procedure

Log in to the management console.
In the upper left corner above the certificate list, click Upload Certificate.
In the Upload Certificate dialog box, enter the certificate information.

Figure 1 Uploading a certificate
- The uploaded certificate and key must correspond to each other.
- Ensure that the private key is not protected by a password.
Click Submit to upload the certificate.
When the certificate is uploaded successfully, a certificate in the Hosted state is added to the certificate list.