Send Renewal Reminders - Netscape MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 4.5 Installation And Setup Manual

Using the Default Demo
Return to the Edit Entry dialog for User Two (repeat the previous procedure if
5.
necessary) and click Advanced to open the Property Editor.
The first attribute listed is now the Certificate for User Two. The certificate is in
an unreadable binary form, so you do not see any actual data.
You have successfully configured the Certificate Manager to publish client
certificates to an LDAP directory.

Send Renewal Reminders

Certificate Management System provides a facility for scheduling automatic jobs.
The jobs facility can help you manage the certificate lifecycle by automating
processes such as removing revoked certificates from your data store or notifying
end-entities when their certificates are about to expire.
This exercise will show you how to use the jobs facility to send out automatic
renewal reminders to entities. You will configure Certificate Management System
to send email to entities starting 400 days before the certificate expires. In a real
deployment, of course, you would probably not start reminding certificate holders
to renew until 30 days before expiration. You will see the email that is sent to a
certificate holder and a summary report of all notices that can be sent to a CMS
agent.
To complete this exercise, you need to have access to a host that can receive Simple
Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) requests and send mail. By default, Certificate
Management System configures
the mail server. Many UNIX hosts run SMTP daemons (such as
default configurations, so in UNIX you may not need to change the CMS defaults.
Windows NT systems, however, do not typically run SMTP daemons by default
and you will probably need to configure the SMTP settings in Certificate
Management System.
If you are sure that the machine on which Certificate Management System is
running is also capable of receiving SMTP requests on port 25, skip to
"Configuring Certificate Management System to Send Renewal Reminders."
Otherwise, find out the name of host that can accept SMTP requests and follow the
next procedure, "Configuring a Mail Server for Certificate Management System,"
to configure Certificate Management System.
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