Netscape MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 6.1 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual page 102

Installing a Certificate Manager
Click Next when you are ready to proceed.
CA Signing Certificate Installation. Depending on whether you have the
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certificate ready for pasting into the Installation Wizard screen, click Yes or No.
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In the web browser window, enter the URL for the remote Certificate
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Manager's Agent Services page. (You must have a valid agent's
certificate.)
Select List Requests, then click Show Pending Requests and click Find.
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In the pending request list, locate your request, click Details to see the
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request, and make any changes. Then, scroll down to the bottom of the
form, and click Do It.
After the certificate is generated, click Show Certificate.
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When the certificate is displayed, scroll down to the base-64 encoded
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version of the certificate, highlight all the text (including
CERTIFICATE -----
to the clipboard or to a text file.
Be sure to not make any changes to the certificate. You're required to
paste the encoded certificate into the Installation Wizard next. So, once
you've copied the certificate, go back to the wizard screen (Step 20).
To submit your certificate request manually to a third-party CA, follow
these steps:
Make sure that the certificate request (including
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CERTIFICATE REQUEST -----
REQUEST -----)
button.
This action copies the certificate request to the clipboard. In addition to
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the copy on the clipboard, the screen informs you that the certificate
request has been saved to a file. You can use either the copy on the
clipboard or the copy in the file to transfer your request to the CA that
will issue the subordinate CA's signing certificate.
Submit your certificate request to a third-party CA, following the
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instructions provided by that CA.
Select No if you have submitted your request to a third-party CA or to a
remote Certificate Manager for which you do not have agent privileges,
you may have to wait days or weeks before you receive the certificate.
Continue as far as you can with the configuration, and resume after you
receive the certificate. The default selection is No.
and
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
and
-----END NEW CERTIFICATE
is highlighted, and click the Copy to Clipboard
-----BEGIN
), and copy it
-----BEGIN NEW