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Chapter 9 Certificate Management
Administration | Certificate Management | Enrollment | Request Generated
Enrolling with a Certificate Authority
To send the certificate request to a CA, enroll, and receive your digital certificates, follow these steps.
(These are cut-and-paste steps; your CA might follow different procedures. In any case, you must end
up with certificates saved as text files on your PC or other reachable network host.)
Step 1 Select and copy the certificate request from the browser window to your clipboard.
Step 2 Use a browser to connect to the CA’s website. Navigate to the screen that lets you submit a PKCS-10
request via cut-and-paste.
Step 3 Paste the certificate request in the CA screen, and submit the request.
Step 4 The CA should respond with a new browser screen that says the certificates were successfully generated.
That screen also should include active links that let you “Download the root certificate” and “Download
the identity certificate.”
Step 5 With the secondary mouse button, click the root certificate download link and select Save Link As or
Save Target As. You want to save the file as a text file on your PC or other reachable network host; do
not open it or install it in the browser. The browser opens a dialog box that lets you navigate to the
desired location and enter a filename. Use a name that clearly identifies this as a root certificate, with a
.txt extension.
Step 6 Repeat the previous step for any subordinate certificates, and finally for the identity certificate. Name
the files so that you can distinguish the certificate types.
Step 7 Proceed to the Administration | Certificate Management | Installation screen.