Additional Reading - Red Hat CERTIFICATE SYSTEM 7.3 - AGENT GUIDE Manual

Chapter 1. About This Guide
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1.4. Additional Reading

The Certificate System Administrator's Guide describes how to set up, configure, and administer the
Certificate System subsystems and how to configure backend certificate management functions, such
as publishing and logging. The Administrator's Guide also describes how to configure subsystems to
relate to one another to manage certificates and tokens and how to manage certificates and tokens;
this guide is targeted for Certificate System administrators.
The Certificate System Agent's Guide describes how agents — users responsible for processing certi-
ficate requests and managing other aspects of certificate management — can use the Certificate Sys-
tem subsystems web services pages to process certificate requests, key recovery, OCSP requests
and CRLs, and other functions.
The documentation for Certificate System includes the following guides:
• Certificate System Administrator's Guide explains all administrative functions for the Certificate Sys-
tem, such as adding users, creating and renewing certificates, managing smart cards, publishing
CRLs, and modifying subsystem settings like port numbers.
• Certificate System Agent's Guide details how to perform agent operations for the CA, RA, DRM, and
TPS subsystems through the Certificate System agent services interfaces.
• Certificate System Command-Line Tools Guide covers the command-line scripts supplied with Red
Hat Certificate System.
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