Overview of Certificate Management - NCOS-Certificate-Management/Overview-of-Certificate-Management

This document provides guidance on using your Ericsson Cradlepoint device for generating, importing, and exporting certificates.

NetCloud OS (NCOS) integrates with an organization’s public key infrastructure (PKI) to manage or generate certificates as a certificate authority (CA). Common use cases for certificate management in NCOS include VPN authentication (IPsec, OpenVPN), WPA2/3 Enterprise authentication (such as WiFi-as-WAN for mobile use), and HTTPS local UI administration.

In production environments, certificates must typically be distributed to endpoints. NCOS supports this through Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) client functionality or by directly importing certificates to a device, group, or local configuration.Overview of SCEP

Certificates are essential for configuring OpenVPN and IPsec services. When your Ericsson Cradlepoint router is configured as a CA, it can generate the certificates needed for these services and for features such as OpenVPN and IPsec in NetCloud Manager.