Red Hat CERTIFICATE SYSTEM 7.1 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual page 142

Installing a Registration Manager
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142 Red Hat Certificate System Administrator's Guide • September 2005
Click Manual Server Certificate Enrollment, or click Agent-Based Server
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Certificate Enrollment if you have an agent certificate. If you choose
Agent-Based Server Certificate Enrollment and you have an agent certificate,
the certificate will be automatically issued once you submit the request.
In the resulting form, choose the type of request from the pull down menu,
paste the request in the request field, and fill in the other fields on the form.
Click Submit.
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If you used the Agent-Based Server Certificate Enrollment and you have an
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agent certificate, the certificate will be automatically issued once you submit
the request.
If you used the Manual Server Certificate Enrollment request, the request gets
added to the agent queue of that Certificate Manager for approval by that
Certificate Manager's agent. If you've permission to access that Certificate
Manager's Agent interface, you can follow the instructions below to issue the
certificate. Otherwise, you'll have to wait for the Certificate Manager's agent
to approve your request and issue the certificate.
To approve the request, do the following:
In the web browser window, enter the URL for the Certificate Manager's
Agent Services page. (You must have a valid agent's certificate.)
Select List Requests, then click Show Pending Requests and click Find. The
pending request list is displayed.
Locate your request, click Details to see it, and make any changes. Then,
scroll down to the bottom of the form, select the appropriate action.
After the certificate is generated, click Show Certificate.
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When the certificate is displayed, scroll down to the base-64 encoded version
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of the certificate, highlight all the text (including
CERTIFICATE -----
the clipboard or to a text file.
Be sure to not make any changes to the certificate. You're required to paste
the encoded certificate into the Installation Wizard next. So, once you've
copied the certificate, go back to the wizard screen (Step 27).
To submit your certificate request manually to a third-party CA, follow these
steps:
Make sure that the certificate request (including
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CERTIFICATE REQUEST -----
REQUEST -----)
and
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
and
-----END NEW CERTIFICATE
is highlighted, and click the Copy to Clipboard button.
-----BEGIN
), and copy it to
-----BEGIN NEW