Managing Certificates

The Certificate Manager allows you to manage digital certificates used by the Global VPN Client for VPN connections. If your VPN gateway uses digital certificates, you must import the CA and Local Certificates into the Certificate Manager.

To open the Certificate Manager for managing certificates

1. Click the View menu.

   

2. Select Certificates in the Global VPN Client window.

3. In the Select Certificate Group drop‐down menu, select one of these types of certificates:

   • User – The local digital certificates used to establish the VPN Security Association.
   • CA – The digital certificates used to validate the user certificates.
   • Trusted Root CA – Is used to validate the CA Certificates.

4. Select the certificate in the list and then do one of these:

   • Click the Import button in the Certificate Manager window to display the Import Certificate window to import a certificate file.
   • Click the Remove button to delete the selected certificate.
   • Click the Details button to view the selected certificate details.

For more information on using certificates for your VPN on the SonicWall appliance, see the SonicOS 8 Device Settings Administration Guide.