Submitting Certificate Requests - Red Hat CERTIFICATE SYSTEM 7.2 - ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

Chapter 10. Managing Certificates

10.2.2. Submitting Certificate Requests

There are three ways to submit a certificate request. The best method for submitting a request
depends on how the request was created.
• Through the Console's Certificate Wizard. The final screen when creating a certificate request
through the subsystem administrative console has the option to submit the request automatically to
a specified Certificate System CA. This is only possible for subsystem certificate requests created
through the Console.
• Through the Certificate System CA end-entities page. The Certificate Manager end-entities services
page has a list of different enrollment forms for submitting certificate requests, depending on the
subsystem and purpose of the certificate. Certificates created through the Console or through the
certutil command-line utility can be submitted through an enrollment form.
• Through a third-party CA. Outside CAs, such as VeriSign, have online or other types of certificate
request enrollments; the requests created by the Certificate System administrative console can be
submitted there.
10.2.2.1. Submitting Certificate Requests through the Console
To send the certificate signing request automatically to a Certificate System Certificate Manager using
the wizard, select the Send the request to a remote Certificate System now checkbox.
WARNING
Submitting certificates through the Certificate Setup Wizard is not supported in Certificate
System 7.2. Use the certutil tool to manage certificates instead.
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