Table Of Contents - Red Hat CERTIFICATE SYSTEM 7.3 - AGENT GUIDE Manual

1. About This Guide 1
1.1. Required Concepts ................................................................................................ 1
1.2. What Is in This Guide ............................................................................................ 1
1.3. Examples and Formatting ...................................................................................... 2
1.3.1. File Locations for Examples and Commands ........................................................ 2
1.3.2. Using Mozilla LDAP Tools ................................................................................... 2
1.3.3. Default Port Numbers ......................................................................................... 3
1.3.4. Guide Formatting ................................................................................................ 3
1.4. Additional Reading ................................................................................................ 4
1.5. Giving Feedback ................................................................................................... 5
1.6. Document History .................................................................................................. 5
2. Agent Services 7
2.1. Overview of Certificate System ............................................................................... 7
2.1.1. Certificate System Sub-systems .......................................................................... 7
2.1.2. Certificate System Users ..................................................................................... 9
2.2. Agent Tasks ........................................................................................................ 10
2.2.1. Certificate Manager Agent Services ................................................................... 12
2.2.2. Data Recovery Manager Agent Services ............................................................ 13
2.2.3. Online Certificate Status Manager Agent Services .............................................. 14
2.2.4. Token Processing System Agent Services ......................................................... 15
2.3. Forms for Performing Agent Operations ................................................................ 17
2.4. Accessing Agent Services .................................................................................... 20
3. CA: Working with Certificate Profiles 23
3.1. About Certificate Profiles ..................................................................................... 23
3.1.1. Categories of Certificate Profiles ........................................................................ 23
3.2. Profile Operations Performed by CA Agents .......................................................... 23
3.3. List of Certificate Profiles ..................................................................................... 24
3.3.1. Example Profile ................................................................................................ 26
3.4. How Certificate Profiles Work ............................................................................... 29
3.5. Enabling and Disabling Certificate Profiles ............................................................ 30
3.5.1. Getting Certificate Profile Information ................................................................. 30
3.5.2. End User Certificate Profile ............................................................................... 30
3.5.3. Policy Information ............................................................................................. 30
3.5.4. Approving a Certificate Profile ........................................................................... 31
3.5.5. Disapproving a Certificate Profile ....................................................................... 31
4. CA: Handling Certificate Requests 33
4.1. Managing Requests ............................................................................................ 33
4.2. Listing Certificate Requests .................................................................................. 34
4.2.1. Selecting a Request ......................................................................................... 37
4.2.2. Searching Requests ......................................................................................... 38
4.3. Approving Requests ............................................................................................ 39
4.4. Sending an Issued Certificate to the Requester ..................................................... 41
5. CA: Finding and Revoking Certificates 45
5.1. Basic Certificate Listing ....................................................................................... 45
5.2. Advanced Certificate Search ................................................................................ 46
5.3. Examining Certificates ......................................................................................... 51
5.4. Revoking Certificates ........................................................................................... 52
5.4.1. Searching for Certificates to Revoke .................................................................. 53
5.4.2. Revoking One or More Certificates .................................................................... 54
5.5. Managing the Certificate Revocation List .............................................................. 57
5.5.1. Viewing or Examining CRLs .............................................................................. 57
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