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As a Certificate Manager or Registration Manager agent, you are responsible for
approving certificate profiles that have been configured by a CMS administrator.
You also manager and approve requests that come from certificate profile
enrollments.
This chapter contains the following sections:
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About Certificate Profiles
•
How Certificate Profiles Work
•
Enabling and Disabling Certificate Profiles
About Certificate Profiles
A certificate profile defines everything associated with the issuance of a particular
type of certificate including the authentication method, the certificate content
(defaults), constraints for values associated with that content that can be contained
in this type of certificate, and the contents of the input and output forms associated
with the certificate profile. Enrollments requests are submitted to a particular
certificate profile and are then subject to the defaults and constraints set up in that
certificate profile whether the request is created from the input form associated
with the certificate profile, or the request is created elsewhere and submitted as a
pre formatted request. The certificate that is issued from a certificate profile request
contains the content defined by the defaults with values derived from the values
contained in the parameters associated with those defaults. The constraints
provide rules for which content is allowable in the certificate, and defines
allowable values for that content.
Working with Certificate Profiles
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