Netscape MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 4.5 Installation And Setup Manual page 250

Stage 2. Running the Installation Wizard
h.
To submit your certificate request manually to a remote Certificate Manager,
follow these steps:
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When the certificate is displayed, scroll down to the base-64 encoded
version 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 21).
Open a web browser window.
Go to the end-entity URL for the remote Certificate Manager that will issue
the SSL server certificate.
For example, if you assigned the port number 17006 to the non-SSL
end-entity port for your root CA, you would go to the URL
http://<hostname>:17006
end entities.
In the left-hand frame of the Enrollment tab, choose the form appropriate
for the request type:
If the request is in the PKCS #10 format, under Server, click SSL Server. In
the resulting form, paste the request from the clipboard into the text area
and fill in any other required information.
If the request is in the CMC format, click CMC Enrollment. In the resulting
form, paste the request from the clipboard into the text area and fill in any
other required information. Be sure to select
the certificate type.
Click Submit.
The request gets added to the agent queue of the remote 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 till the remote Certificate Manager's agent approves your request.
In the web browser window, enter the URL for the remote Certificate
Manager's Agent Services page. (You must use the same computer where
you got your agent certificate.)
Select List Requests, click Show Pending Requests, and click Find. The
pending request list is displayed.
and
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
to bring up the Certificate Manager page for
-----BEGIN
), and copy it to
Server SSL Certificate
as