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Managing Certificates from the Administration Console

You can easily add, manage, and view self-signed and commercial certificate from the administration console.

About Certificates

A certificate is the digital identity used for secure communication between different hosts or clients and servers. Certificates are used to certify that a site is owned by you. Two types of certificates can be used with Zimbra Collaboration Server self signed and commercial certificates.

You can use the Certificate Installation Wizard to generate a new self-signed certificate. This is useful when you use a self-signed certificate and want to change the expiration date. The default is 365 days. Self-signed certificates are normally used for testing.

To obtain a commercially signed certificate, use the Zimbra Certificates Wizard to generate the RSA Private Key and Certificate Signing Request (CSR). You download the CSR from the Zimbra server and submit it to a Certificate Authority, such as VeriSign or GoDaddy. They issue a digitally signed certificate, and when you receive the certificate, you use the Certificates Wizard to install the certificate on the Zimbra Collaboration Server.

To install a Certificate, see Installing Certificates

 

 

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