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Registration Manager Deployment Considerations
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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:7172
Password Storage
Each subsystem stores passwords for its internal database, and for the tokens
containing its keys and certificates. See "System Passwords," on page 250 for
information on how these passwords are stored.
Internal Database
Each Registration 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 associated
passwords to 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
specifying this when running the installation wizard to configure that subsystem.
You should carefully consider whether you want to store this information in a
separate internal database for each subsystem or use one internal database for all
subsystems installed on the host.
It's recommended that you do not use this Directory Server instance for any other
purposes; the directory schema is configured for storing CMS data.
Signing Key Type and Length
If you wish, you can import the signing key and certificate used in a previous
version of CMS installation rather than generating a new signing key pair. For
information on how to do this, check the migration information.
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