Netscape MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 6.2 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual page 178

Installing an Online Certificate Status Manager
Click Next when you are ready to proceed.
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If the request contains all the required information, you'll get a
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notification of request being successfully added to the agent queue of
that 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.
In the web browser window, enter the URL for the 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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The pending request list is displayed.
Locate your request, click Details to see it.
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After checking the rest of the certificate request and making any
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changes, scroll to the bottom, and click Approve Request.
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 13).
Also note that you might be required to paste the CA certificate chain
in the Installation Wizard. So, keep the browser window open.
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
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 Online Certificate Status Manager's signing certificate.
Submit your certificate request to a third-party CA, following the
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instructions provided by that CA.
and
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
and
-----END NEW CERTIFICATE
is highlighted, and click the Copy to Clipboard
-----BEGIN
), and copy it
-----BEGIN NEW