15.1 Naming Certificates

As you create certificates on the appliance, you should observe the following guidelines:

  1. Identify the caching service for which the certificate will be used.

  2. Pick a name for the certificate that you will easily associate with its corresponding caching service. The name must contain only alphanumeric characters and no spaces.

    For example, you might pick Foo for the name of the foo.gov Web server accelerator or Marketing for the transparent service in the marketing department.

  3. Choose the subject name that the browser expects to find in the certificate.

    For accelerator services, the Subject Name field must contain the DNS name, with the fields separated by periods (.).

    For example, the www.foo.gov Web server accelerator certificate must have a Subject Name of www.foo.gov.