Netscape MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 6.2 - AGENT GUIDE Manual page 26

Accessing Agent Services
After you submit this initial Administrator/Agent Certificate Enrollment form, it is
automatically disabled, so that no one else can acquire a certificate without agent
approval or some form of automated authentication. The system automatically
adds the initial user to the list of agents.
To enroll for the first agent certificate, you should be working at the computer you
intend to use as the agent, so that the new certificate will be installed in the browser
you will be using to access the Agent Services pages. Follow these steps:
Open a web browser window.
1.
To open the Administrator/Agent Certificate Enrollment form, type the
2.
following in a browser's URL field:
https://<hostname>:<admin_port>/ca/adminEnroll.html
where
Certificate Management System is installed (for example,
cmshost.example.com
installation for communications over SSL with the administration console.
Because you have accessed an SSL port, Certificate Management System
presents its server SSL certificate to your browser for authentication. This is the
SSL server certificate that you created during installation. Because you just
created it, it is not on your browser's list of trusted certificates. Before you see
the Administrator/Agent Certificate Enrollment form, a series of dialog boxes
appear that let you add the CMS server certificate to your list of trusted
certificates.
Complete the dialog boxes as instructed (the exact procedure depends on the
3.
browser you are using).
In the Administrator/Agent Certificate Enrollment form, enroll for a client SSL
4.
certificate as the system's first privileged user by entering the following
information:
Authentication Information section:
User ID. The ID you entered for the CMS administrator during installation.
Password. The password you specified for the CMS administrator during
installation.
Subject Name section (The subject name is the distinguished name (DN) that
identifies the certified owner of the certificate.)
Full name. Name of administrator/agent.
Login name. User ID of administrator/agent.
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is the fully qualified domain name of the machine on which
<hostname>
) and is the TCP port specified during
<admin_port>