What is the purpose of using the Cisco SD-WAN vManage Certificate Management API?

The Cisco SD-WAN vManage Certificate Management API is used to generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR). This CSR contains public key information and identity details, which is then submitted to a Certificate Authority (CA) to obtain a signed digital certificate, essential for secure communication and device authentication within the SD-WAN fabric.

Allocating resources to a certificate server is an infrastructure management task related to the CA itself, not a function provided by the vManage Certificate Management API.

While the overall goal is to obtain a certificate, the vManage API's role is typically generating the CSR, which is then presented to the CA; directly "requesting a certificate from the certificate server" via this API, without prior CSR generation, is not its primary or sole purpose.

Enabling vManage Center is a broad operational task, and certificate management is a specific security component, not the overall enabling function of the entire vManage platform.