Password Storage; Internal Database - Netscape MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 6.1 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Certificate Manager Deployment Considerations
and approve and configure certificate profiles. The agent's services interface is
an HTML interface accessible through HTTPS that authenticates agents using
their certificate. The default interface provides all the functionality needed by
agents for a Certificate Manager and is completely customizable.
The agent services interface listens to requests and communicates on the SSL
Agent Services Port. This is the port that the agent goes to in order to access the
agent services interface. The agent services interface is accessible at the
following location:
https://<cms_host_dnsname>:<port_number>
For example:
https://services.example.com:7878
• An End-Entity interface that is accessible by anyone who can access that URL.
The end-entity interface is an HTML interface accessible through either HTTPS
or HTTP (there are two ports set up by default). The default interface provides
forms for the various types of enrollment and other tasks an end entity can
perform and is completely customizable. The end-entity interface listens for
requests on the SSL or Non-SSL End Entity Ports. Both are configured during
installation.
https://<cms_host_dnsname>:<port_number>
For example:
https://services.example.com:7878

Password Storage

Each subsystem stores passwords for its internal database, and for the tokens
containing its keys and certificates. See "System Passwords," on page 252 for
information on how these passwords are stored.

Internal Database

Each Certificate Manager instance contains an internal database that stores
certificates, certificate requests and the like.
During installation, you set up this database by either choosing to create a new
database, or use an existing database, providing user IDs and passwords for special
users of the database, and the port the database will listen to requests on. You can
choose to use the same internal database for more than one subsystem by
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