Chapter 4 Planning Your Deployment - Netscape MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 6.0 Installation And Setup Manual

Before installing Netscape Certificate Management System (CMS) in any real-life
deployment, you first need to plan all aspects of the proposed installation. It's
important to consider all potential issues carefully before installation. Omissions or
faulty assumptions in the planning process can cause severe problems later.
This chapter provides an overview of the most important decisions you need to
make. Many of these decisions are interdependent; for example, the question of
whether a Certificate Manager is subordinate affects its distinguished name (DN)
as well as its validity period, extensions, and place in the CA hierarchy.
As you begin to make decisions about your deployment strategy, you can use
Chapter 5, "Installation Worksheet" to collect the detailed information you must
supply during the installation and configuration of individual subsystems.
This chapter has the following sections:
• Topology Decisions (page 162)
• Certificate Authority Decisions (page 169)
• Cryptographic Token Decisions (page 173)
• Publishing Decisions (page 174)
• Subsystem Certificate Decisions (page 176)
• Authentication Decisions (page 179)
• Policy Decisions (page 179)
• Deployment Strategy and Port Assignments (page 180)
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