About This Guide; Required Information; What Is In This Guide - Red Hat CERTIFICATE SYSTEM 7.2 - COMMAND-LINE TOOLS Manual

About This Guide

The Certificate System Command-Line Tools Guide describes the command-line tools and
utilities bundled with Red Hat Certificate System and provides information such as command
syntax and usage examples to help use these tools.
This guide is intended for experienced system administrators who are planning to deploy the
Certificate System. Certificate System agents should use the Certificate System Agent's Guide
for information on how to perform agent tasks, such as handling certificate requests and
revoking certificates.

1. Required Information

This guide assumes familiarity with the following concepts:
• Public-key cryptography and the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol
• SSL cipher suites
• The purpose of and major steps in the SSL handshake
• Intranet, extranet, Internet security, and the role of digital certificates in a secure enterprise,
including the following topics:
• Encryption and decryption
• Public keys, private keys, and symmetric keys
• Significance of key lengths
• Digital signatures
• Digital certificates
• The role of digital certificates in a public-key infrastructure (PKI)
• Certificate hierarchies

2. What Is in This Guide

This guide contains the following topics:
Chapter 1, Create and Remove Instance
Tools
Chapter 2, Silent Installation
Chapter 3, TokenInfo
Describes the tools used to create and
remove subsystem instances.
Describes the tool used for a silent instance
creation.
Describes the utility which can be used to
identify tokens on a machine, which shows
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