Configuring A Pki Entity - HP 5920 Series Configuration Manual

Tasks at a glance
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Configuring automatic certificate request
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Manually requesting a certificate
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Configuring a PKI entity

A CA identifies a certificate applicant by the identity information. A valid PKI entity must include at least
one of following identity categories:
Distinguished name (DN) of the entity, which further includes the common name, county code,
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locality, organization, unit in the organization, and state. If you configure the DN for an entity, a
common name is required.
FQDN of the entity.
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IP address of the entity.
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Whether the categories are required or optional depends on the CA policy. Follow the CA policy to
configure the entity settings. For example, if the CA policy requires the entity DN, but you configure only
the IP address, the CA rejects the certificate request from the entity.
The SCEP add-on on the Windows 2000 CA server has restrictions on the data length of a certificate
request. If a request for a PKI entity exceeds the data length limit, the CA server does not respond to the
certificate request. In this case, you can use an out-of-band means to submit the request and the CA
server can issue a certificate. Other types of CA servers, such as RSA servers and OpenCA servers, do
not have such restrictions.
To configure a PKI entity:
Step
1. Enter system view.
2. Create a PKI entity and enter
its view.
3. Set a common name for the
entity.
Configuring a PKI entity
Configuring a PKI domain
Requesting a certificate
Aborting a certificate request
Obtaining certificates
Verifying PKI certificates
Specifying the storage path for the certificates and CRLs
Exporting certificates
Removing a certificate
Configuring a certificate access control policy
Command
system-view
pki entity entity-name
common-name
common-name-sting
Remarks
N/A
By default, no PKI entities exist.
To create multiple PKI entities, repeat
this step.
By default, the common name is not set.
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