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Cloning the Certificate Manager
Cloning the CA
To setup cloning for a Certificate Manager (CA) subsystem:
From the Object menu in the Netscape Console, choose Create Instance Of,
1.
then choose Netscape Certificate Management System.Alternatively, you can
right-click the Server Group node and choose Create Instance Of > Netscape
Certificate Management System.
The admin console asks you to provide a name for the new instance; enter the
name of the new Certificate Manager instance in the dialog provided.
The Installation Wizard displays a dialog asking you to specify whether this
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new instance is a clone. Answer Yes and click Next.
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same SSL server certificate and key copied from the master Certificate
Manager. If you are not using a load balancer and your master and cloned
Certificate Managers exist on separate machines (e. g. - a proprietary
configuration which expects usernames [A-M] using one machine and
usernames [N-Z] using the other machine), then the SSL server certificate
DNs should contain the hostname of their resident machines with their
own unique keys obtained by using the renewal process (this scenario
requires advanced manual configuration and therefore is not
recommended).
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