Chapter 6 Managing Ocsp Service Related Tasks; Listing Cas Identified By Online Certificate Status Manager - Netscape MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 6.01 - AGENT GUIDE Manual

This chapter describes how to perform Online Certificate Status Manager agent's
tasks, such as identifying a CA to the Online Certificate Status Manager, adding a
CRL to the Online Certificate Status Manager's internal datbase and so on. This
service is available only when the Online Certificate Status Manager subsystem is
installed. The Online Certificate Status Manager Agent Services page allows
certified agents to accomplish these tasks.
This chapter has the following sections:
• Listing CAs Identified by Online Certificate Status Manager (page 75)
• Identifying a CA to Online Certificate Status Manager (page 76)
• Adding a CRL to Online Certificate Status Manager (page 78)
• Checking the Revocation Status of a Certificate (page 79)
Listing CAs Identified by Online Certificate Status
Manager
The Online Certificate Status Manager can be configured to receive CRLs from
multiple Certificate Managers. Each Certificate Manager that can publish CRLs to
the Online Certificate Status Manager must have its CA signing certificate stored in
the internal database of the Online Certificate Status Manager. For instructions, see
"Identifying a CA to Online Certificate Status Manager" on page 76.
At any given time, you can see the list Certificate Managers that are currently
recognized by the Online Certificate Status Manager.
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