CSR Creation Instructions for Sonic Wall
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To generate a CSR on a SonicWALL SSL VPN you will need to Expand System to Certificates and click Generate CSR.
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On the Generate Certificate Signing Request (CSR) page, enter the details about your organization's legal business name and location. Then enter the other following information:
For Name: Enter an alias (aka friendly name).
For Domain Name (FQDN): enter the name you are securing. If you're going to get a wildcard certificate the FQDN should begin with a wildcard '*' character.
For Key Length (bits): choose at least 2048 click Submit...
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Then if prompted if you want to save or open the file csr.zip choose to save the file, then open the file and extract the two files (server.csr and server.key).
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Order your SSL Certificate, and upload the file server.csr when prompted for your server's CSR.