About Certificate Deployment
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About Certificate Deployment

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About Certificate Deployment

There are two basic approaches to deploying certificates for GlobalProtect LSVPN:
  • Enterprise Certificate Authority—If you already have your own enterprise certificate authority, you can use this internal CA to issue an intermediate CA certificate for the GlobalProtect portal to enable it to issue certificates to the GlobalProtect gateways and satellites. You can also configure the GlobalProtect portal to act as a Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) client to issue client certificates to GlobalProtect satellites.
  • Self-Signed Certificates—You can generate a self-signed root CA certificate on the firewall and use it to issue server certificates for the portal, gateway(s), and satellite(s). When using self-signed root CA certificates, as a best practice, create a self-signed root CA certificate on the portal and use it to issue server certificates for the gateways and satellites. This way, the private key used for certificate signing stays on the portal.