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Approving Requests
To change any of the information that will be contained in the certificate, such
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as the subject name or validity period, change the settings in the Policy
Information table contained in the certificate profile request.
The policies contained in this certificate profile will be listed in this table
detailing the policy, providing the specific values for this certificate, and
providing the constraints for each policy. For any policy that you can change,
there will either be a pull-down list allowing you to make the change, or the
information will be in a field in which you can change the derived value.
When making these changes, the you provide must be valid values within the
constraint placed on a policy. If you provide a value that is outside of the
constraint that is placed, the request will not validate, and you will need to
change the value before a certificate will be issued.
Choose an action from the pull-down menu at the bottom of the page and click
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Submit. The actions available are as follows:
Approve Request. To approve the request and issue the certificate.
Update Request. To update the request with any information you have
changed in the request. The status of the request does not change, but the
information contained in the request does change.
Validate Request. To validate that the request conforms to the constraints
placed on the issuance of this type of certificate. Validating will either tell you
that the request is valid, or give you a list of any non-conforming items that
need to be fixed.
Reject Request. To reject the request.
Cancel Request. To cancel the request without issuing a certificate or issuing a
rejection.
Assigning a Request
Before acting on a request, you can assign it to yourself. Assignment is not
required, and it only applies if your system is configured to do older, non-profile
style enrollment (for which, see "Adjusting, Verifying, and Approving a Request"
on page 45). Any agent can act on an unassigned request. When a request is
assigned to a particular agent, all agents can examine that request, but only the
assigned agent can act on it. When a request is assigned to another agent, however,
you can choose to reassign it to yourself in order to act on it.
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