How do we generate our own private key and csr through openssl?

Products

• Network Observability
• CA Performance Management
• Spectrum

Issue/Introduction

Our Certificate Authority will not accept a CSR with SAN entries and recommends using OpenSSL to accomplish this.

Environment

All supported DX NetOps releases

Resolution

openssl req -new -sha256 -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout private_key.key -out certificate_signing_request.csr -subj "/CN=system_hostname.domain.com"