CREATE CERTIFICATE

Creates or imports a certificate, Certificate Authority (CA), or intermediate CA.

Creates or imports a certificate, Certificate Authority (CA), or intermediate CA. These certificates can be used with ALTER TLS CONFIGURATION to set up client-server TLS, LDAPLink TLS, LDAPAuth TLS, and internode TLS.

CREATE CERTIFICATE generates x509v3 certificates.

Syntax

CREATE [TEMP[ORARY]] [CA] CERTIFICATE certificate_name
    {AS cert [KEY key_name]
    | SUBJECT subject
      [ SIGNED BY ca_cert ]
      [ VALID FOR days ]
      [ EXTENSIONS ext = val[,...] ]
      [ KEY private_key ]}

Parameters

TEMPORARY
Create with session scope. The key is stored in memory and is valid only for the current session.
CA
Designates the certificate as a CA or intermediate certificate. If omitted, the operation creates a normal certificate.
certificate_name
The name of the certificate.
AS cert
The imported certificate (string).

This parameter should include the entire chain of certificates, excluding the CA certificate.

KEY key_name
The name of the key.

This parameter only needs to be set for client/server certificates and CA certificates that will be used to sign other certificates in OpenText™ Analytics Database. If your imported CA certificate is only for validating other certificates, you do not need to specify a key.

SUBJECT subject
The entity to issue the certificate to (string).
SIGNED BY ca_cert
The name of the CA that signed the certificate.

When adding a CA certificate, this parameter is optional. Specifying it will create an intermediate CA that cannot be used to sign other CA certificates.

When creating a certificate, this parameter is required.

VALID FOR days
The number of days that the certificate is valid.
EXTENSIONS ext=val
Strings specifying certificate extensions. For a full list of extensions, see the OpenSSL documentation.
KEY private_key
The name of the certificate's private key.

When importing a certificate, this parameter is required.

Privileges

Superuser

Default extensions

CREATE CERTIFICATE generates x509v3 certificates and includes several extensions by default. These differ based on the type of certificate you create:

CA Certificate:

  • 'basicConstraints' = 'critical, CA:true'

  • 'keyUsage' = 'critical, digitalSignature, keyCertSign'

  • 'nsComment' = OpenText™ Analytics Database generated [CA] certificate'

  • 'subjectKeyIdentifier' = 'hash'

Certificate:

  • 'basicConstraints' = 'CA:false'

  • 'keyUsage' = 'critical, digitalSignature, keyEncipherment'

Examples

See Generating TLS certificates and keys.

See also