Configuring An Entity Dn - HP 12500 Series Configuration Manual

Task
Destroying a local RSA or ECDSA key pair
Deleting a certificate
Configuring an access control policy

Configuring an entity DN

A certificate is the binding of a public key and the identity information of an entity, where the identity
information is identified by an entity distinguished name (DN). A CA identifies a certificate applicant
uniquely by entity DN.
An entity DN is defined by these parameters:
• Common name of the entity.
Country code of the entity, a standard 2-character code. For example, US represents the United
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States.
Fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the entity, a unique identifier of an entity on the network.
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It consists of a host name and a domain name and can be resolved to an IP address. For example,
www.whatever.com is an FQDN, where www is a host name and whatever.com a domain name.
• IP address of the entity.
Locality where the entity resides.
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Organization to which the entity belongs.
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Unit of the entity in the organization.
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State where the entity resides.
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The configuration of an entity DN must comply with the CA certificate issue policy. You need to determine,
for example, which entity DN parameters are mandatory and which are optional. Otherwise, certificate
requests might be rejected.
To configure an entity DN:
Step
1. Enter system view.
2. Create an entity and enter its
view.
3. Configure the common name
for the entity.
4. Configure the country code
for the entity.
5. Configure the FQDN for the
entity.
Command
system-view
pki entity entity-name
common-name name
country country-code-str
fqdn name-str
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Remarks
Optional.
Optional.
Optional.
Remarks
N/A
No entity exists by default.
You can create up to two entities
on a switch.
Optional.
No common name is specified by
default.
Optional.
No country code is specified by
default.
Optional.
No FQDN is specified by default.