Validate and Prepare Certificates for Upload

The next step is to validate and prepare certificates for upload.

To validate and prepare certificates for upload

1. Verify that none of the certificates in the certificate chain are corrupted or using invalid encoding.

   To do so, open each certificate in a program such as Notepad or Word, and verify that it contains the following:

   -------- BEGIN CERTIFICATE -------

   <CERTIFICATE CONTENT>

   -------- END CERTIFICATE -------

2. Change the identity certificate issued to "*.ctera.com" to certificate.crt.
3. Change the file extension of the other certificates in the certificate chain to "crt".

   For example, certificate-name.crt.

4. Archive all of the certificates (the identity certificate, the intermediary certificates, and the root self-signed certificate) in a ZIP file called certificate.zip.

   For example: