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Installing a Certificate Manager
For more information about extensions, see Appendix G, "Certificate and CRL
Extensions."
Click Next to continue.
Certificate Manager CA Signing Certificate Creation. This is an informational
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screen that tells you that the wizard has all the information required to
generate the key pair and certificate request. In the previous screen, if you
chose to include the Subject Key Identifier extension in the certificate, you'll be
given the choice to select the format for the certificate request. Otherwise, the
request format will be PKCS #10.
Click Next to generate the request. The wizard creates a certificate request that
you must submit to another CA.
Submission of Request. Select whether you want to submit the request
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manually or send the request to a remote Certificate Manager automatically.
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If you want the wizard to generate the certificate request in PKCS #10
format, select the "Generate PKCS10 request" option.
If you want the wizard to generate the certificate request in CMC format,
select the "Generate CMC full enrollment request" option.
To automatically submit the request to a remote Certificate Manager (or for
automatic enrollment), follow these steps:
Select the "Send the request to a remote CMS now" option.
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Enter the host name and end-entity port number of the remote
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Certificate Manager, and select whether this end-entity port is SSL
enabled.
Click Next to submit the request.
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The Certificate Request Result screen appears, confirming that the
request has been submitted. Note the request ID provided in the
response message. (You can use it later to retrieve the certificate, once
it has been issued, from the end-entity port.)
Note that the request you submitted 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 should wait for the other agent to
approve your request and issue the certificate.
Open a web browser window.
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