Chapter 1 Overview; Features; Subsystems - Red Hat CERTIFICATE SYSTEM 7.1 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

This chapter provides an overview of Red Hat Certificate System (CS), a highly
configurable set of software components and tools for creating, deploying, and managing
certificates. Based on open standards for certificate management, Certificate System
provides a complete, customizable, robust, scalable, and high-performance certificate
management solution for your public-key infrastructure (PKI), extranets and intranets.
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Features

This section discusses the features of CS.

Subsystems

CS has four subsystems to provide flexibility in setting up your PKI. The subsystems are
highly-cofigurable. The four subsystems that comprise CS are as follows:
Features
How Certificate System Works
Deployment Scenarios
System Architecture
CS SDK
Support for Open Standards
Chapter 1
Overview
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