Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Editing a Certificate

Edit a certificate to update its description.

This topic describes only how to update a certificate's description. For information about how to update a certificate's rules, see Editing Certificate Rules. Or, if you issued and manage a certificate internally, you can update a certificate version number in one of two ways. You can renew a certificate to create a new certificate version or you can make an existing certificate version the current certificate version. For more information, see Renewing a Certificate or Making a Certificate Version Current.

  • From the Console, the only certificate property that you can edit is the certificate description.

    1. Open the navigation menu and click Identity & Security.
    2. Under Certificates, click Certificates.
    3. From the list of certificates in the compartment, click the name of the certificate that you want to update.

      To find a certificate in a different compartment, under List scope, choose a different compartment.

    4. Click Edit Certificate.
    5. Update the existing description, and then click Edit. (Avoid entering confidential information.)

  • Use the oci certs-mgmt certificate update command and required parameters to update a certificate description:

    oci certs-mgmt certificate update --certificate-id <certificate_OCID> --description <new_description>

    For example:

    oci certs-mgmt certificate update --certificate-id ocid1.certificate.oc1.<region>.<unique_ID> --description "new certificate description"

    For a complete list of flags and variable options for CLI commands, see the CLI Command Reference.

  • Run the UpdateCertificate operation to update a certificate description.