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Unable to specify Organizational Unit when generating Brocade switch certificate

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Applies to

  • Brocade FC switches
  • Fabric OS v9.2.x

Issue

When trying to generate a new certificate using seccertmgmt generate, there is no possibility to specify the organizational unit
 
Example:

switch:admin> seccertmgmt generate -csr radius -type rsa \
   -keysize 2048 -hash sha256
Generating a  CSR will automatically do the following:
1. Delete all existing CSRs.
2. Delete existing switch certificate.
3. Reset the certificate filename to none.

Warning:
        Key-pair generation is CPU intensive and can cause high CPU usage
        Private IPs and hostnames should not be part of SCN and/or SAN per CA/Browser forum.

Continue (yes, y, no, n): [no] y
Country Name (2 letter code, eg, US):US
State or Province Name (full name, eg, California):California
Locality Name (eg, city name)an Jose
Organization Name (eg, company name):Broadcom
Common Name (Fully qualified Domain Name, or IP address):10.xx.xx.xx
Email Address:aaaaaaaaaaaa@broadcom.com

Do you want to continue including IP in the SAN? (yes, y, no, n): [no] y
Generating CSR, file name is: 10.20.30.40.csr

Note: This example was taken from the Brocade® Fabric OS® Command Reference Manual, 9.2.x

 

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