The administrator can enable the policy settings of the Web UI for certificate authentication to allow the user to choose one of the following options:
Log in to the Web UI using the user name and password provided by their administrator or using a certificate when a client X.509 certificate is optional for user authentication. For details, see Logging in to the Web UI for certificate authentication.
Log in to the Web UI using a certificate when a client X.509 certificate is mandatory for user authentication. For details, see Logging in to the Web UI for certificate authentication.
When certificate authentication is not mandatory, you can configure the appliance not to accept a client X.509 certificate.
Note
You cannot use other authentication methods that are already configured to log in to the Web UI.
You can enable or disable the policy settings of the Web UI for certificate authentication only using the CLI. Policy settings are disabled by default.
Admin access to the appliance.
(Optional) LDAP servers have been configured to authorize users. For details about how to configure an LDAP server, see LDAP server configuration.
A Certificate Authority (CA) certificate bundle has been downloaded, and an imported certificate has been added to an existing bundle from a specified URL. For details about how to download CA certificate bundle, see Downloading a CA certificate bundle using the CLI.