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Certificate auto-renewal

The certificate auto-renewal feature allows you to manage your certificates by allowing the system to automatically renew your certificate before your current certificate expires. This is feature was recently added, which means that you may have existing certificate profiles that do not have auto-renewal enabled.

When certificate auto-renewal is enabled:

  • Your private certificates will auto-renew 6 hours before the certificate expires.

  • Your public certificates will auto-renew 14 days before the certificate expires because it requires a compliance review before the certificate can be issued.

Enable auto-renewal

This feature allows you to better manage your certificates by allowing the system to automatically renew your certificate before your current certificate expires. This is feature was recently added, which means that you may have existing certificate profiles that do not have auto-renewal enabled.

To enable auto-renewal on an existing certificate profile:

  1. Sign in to DigiCert ONE.

  2. Select the Manager menu (top right) > Software Trust.

  3. Navigate to: Certificates > Certificate profiles.

  4. Click on the certificate profile alias.

  5. Click edit icon.

  6. Complete these fields:

Field

Description

Auto-renew

Select Yes if you want all certificates created using this certificate profile to automatically renew before they expire.

Select No if you do not want any certificates created using this certificate profile to auto-renew.

Select Choose during certificate generation if you are unsure or want the option to choose when you create a certificate using this certificate profile.

Auto-renew scope

Select Apply to new certificates only if you only want the auto-renewal settings you have selected to apply to future certificates.

Select Apply to new and existing certificates if you want the auto-renewal settings you have selected to apply future certificates and all certificates you have already created using this certificate profile.

Change the auto-renewal setting for one certificate:

  1. Sign in to DigiCert ONE.

  2. Navigate to the Manager menu (top right) > Software Trust.

  3. Select Certificates.

  4. Click on the certificate alias.

  5. Click edit icon.

  6. Select Yes (to enable) or No (to disable) under the Auto-renew section.

  7. Select Update.

Nota

If the above options are not available to you, confirm that your certificate profile meets the prerequisites to make this change.