Coming in IT Portal 4.6.27 · Q3 2026
The end of copy-pasting from certificate files
Tracking a certificate in IT Portal used to mean doing the boring part by hand. You uploaded the .crt or .pfx to its agreement, then opened the file in some external tool, squinted at the details, and typed the expiry date, vendor, and serial number back into the form yourself. Every renewal meant doing it all over again — and a single mistyped expiry date could mean a missed alert and a certificate that lapsed without warning.
That manual step is gone. When you upload a certificate file to any certificate-type agreement, the Portal now reads the file and fills in the key details for you.
What gets filled in automatically
The moment a certificate file is attached to a certificate agreement, the Portal parses it and populates the agreement fields:
- Expiration date and issue date
- Vendor (the issuing authority)
- Serial number
No external tools, no copy-paste, no transcription errors. The values come straight out of the file.
A new Certificate Info card
Beyond the agreement fields, a new Certificate Info card surfaces everything else the Portal pulled from the file in one place:
- Subject and issuer
- Thumbprint
- Key algorithm
- SAN entries (Subject Alternative Names)
- The full certificate chain
It's the same detail you'd normally dig for in a certificate viewer, now sitting right on the agreement where the rest of your documentation lives.
A traffic-light badge for expiry at a glance
Each certificate gets a colour-coded badge so you can read its health without doing date math:
- 🟢 Green — plenty of runway
- 🟡 Yellow — getting close, time to plan the renewal
- 🔴 Red — expired or about to be
Password-protected certificates
Bundled formats like .pfx and .p12 are usually locked behind a password. When you upload one, the Portal prompts for the password just once. It's then stored securely, so you're never asked again on subsequent reads of that certificate.
Bundles show their chain
For bundle files such as .p7b and .pfx, the Portal doesn't stop at the leaf certificate. It expands the bundle and lists the intermediate and root certificates in a sub-table, so you can see the full trust chain that shipped inside the file.
Expiry alerts that just work
Because the expiration date is now extracted automatically, the Portal's existing expiry alerts and email notifications fire on their own for SSL and code-signing certificates. The early-warning system you already rely on now works with zero manual data entry behind it — upload the file and the alerts take care of themselves.
Your manual edits are always safe
Auto-parsing never clobbers your work. Any field you've already filled in by hand is left untouched. The Portal only populates fields that are empty, so a value you deliberately set or corrected always wins over what's read from the file.
Works everywhere certificates do
This is on by default across all certificate agreement types — SSL Certificates, Code Signing Certificate, Certificate Info, and the rest — with no setup required. It understands 8 common certificate file formats, and the whole experience is available in all 7 supported languages.
One thing to remember at renewal
When a certificate is renewed, the Portal does not sync the new details automatically. The certificate file itself is the source of truth, so an admin needs to re-upload the renewed certificate file to refresh the agreement. Once the new file is in, every field, the Certificate Info card, and the expiry badge update from it just like the first time.
Availability
Certificate auto-parsing ships with IT Portal 4.6.27, scheduled for Q3 2026. Attach a certificate to one of your certificate agreements and the details fill themselves in — no external viewer, no copy-paste, and no more lapsed certs from a mistyped date.
