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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.
  • For uploaded certificates, SCM reminds you of certificate expiration 30 days before the certificates expire.

Constraints

  • Expired certificates cannot be uploaded.
  • A certificate whose certificate chain length is 1 cannot be uploaded. That is, the certificate to be uploaded must contain a certificate chain and cannot be a single certificate.
  • The CN of the certificate to be uploaded must be in DNS or IP address format.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the management console.
  2. Click in the upper left corner of the page and choose Security & Compliance > Cloud Certificate Management Service. The service console is displayed.
  3. In the navigation pane on the left, choose SSL Certificate Manager > SSL Certificates.
  4. Click Upload Certificate.
  5. In the Hosted Certificates dialog box, enter the certificate information.

    Table 1 Parameters for uploading an international standard certificate

    Parameter

    Description

    Certificate Name

    A certificate name you specify.

    Enterprise Project

    Add the uploaded SSL certificate to the corresponding enterprise project.

    Certificate File

    Open the PEM file in the certificate to be uploaded as a text file and copy the certificate content in the file to this text box.

    Note that you need to upload a combined certificate file that contains both the server certificate content and certificate chain content into this field. The content of the certificate chain should be pasted right below the content of the server certificate.

    Private Key

    Use a text editor to open the KEY file in the certificate you want to upload and copy the private key content to this text box.
    • The uploaded certificate and key must correspond to each other.
    • Ensure that the private key is not protected by a password.

  6. Click Submit to upload the certificate.

    When the certificate is uploaded successfully, a certificate in the Hosted state is added to the certificate list.