Extracting Certificates and Private Keys

Certificates that you use with the virtual appliances must be in the PEM file format.

The examples in the following table use Gnu openssl commands to extract the certificate information you need to configure the virtual appliances.

Table 1. Sample Certificate Values and Commands (openssl)

Certificate Authority Provides	Command	Virtual Appliance Entries
RSA Private Key	openssl pkcs12 -in path _to_.pfx certificate_file -nocerts -out key.pem	RSA Private Key
PEM File	openssl pkcs12 -in path _to_.pfx certificate_file -clcerts -nokeys -out cert.pem	Certificate Chain
(Optional) Pass Phrase	n/a	Pass Phrase