Installation guide
there are important changes and enhancements to the 8.0 documentation:
5.1. Documentation Changes in 8.0
The Administrator's Guide has been reorganized and partially rewritten to have a better structure
and flow to the content. The intent of rewriting the Administrator's Guide is to make information easier
and more intuitive to find.
A new Installation Guide has been added to the doc set. T his is based on the installation sections
from the Administrator's Guide.
A new Certificate System Deployment Guide has been written to cover PKI concepts and deployment
planning.
A new end-entities guide, Using End User Services, has been created to have a small, handy guide
for the end-user services for the CA and RA which are available through Certificate System.
All of the new features implemented in Certificate System 8.0 are covered in the documentation:
New information on port separation has been added in all of the guides and all examples and
screenshots have been updated with the new port settings.
The renewal sections in the Administrator's Guide have been rewritten and updated for the new
profile framework. T his includes adding information on new CA profiles for renewal and new
procedures to renew user and server SSL certificates. T he enrollment pages list in the Agent's Guide
has also been updated.
The existing auto enrollment proxy information has been added to the Administrator's Guide.
A new method for publishing CRLs over HT T P has been added, and the corresponding sections of
the publishing chapter in the Administrator's Guide have been updated.
The new TPS operator role has been added to the TPS chapter of the Agent's Guide, and the
information for the agent and admin roles has been updated.
The cloning sections have been updated to cover enhancements for managing and assigning serial
numbers and for changes in the configuration procedure.
There is enhanced UTF-8 support for subject alt names in certificates. This has been noted in the
Administrator's Guide.
Some information on audit log signing has been added to the logs section of the Administrator's
Guide.
The procedure for loading third-party ECC modules to provide ECC support has been added to the
Installation Guide.
The procedure for enabling Windows smart card logins has been added to the token management
chapter of the Administrator's Guide.
Changes to the Enterprise Security Client configuration and to the security officer configuration have
been added to the Managing Smart Cards with the Enterprise Security Client guide.
The section on security domains has been updated to reference the new LDAP entries rather than
the dom ain.xm l file.
The directory paths have been updated for the new locations.
5.2. Documentation with 8.0
Along with these release notes, the documentation for Certificate System includes the following guides:
Certificate System Deployment Guide describes basic PKI concepts and gives an overview of the
planning process for setting up Certificate System.
This manual is intended for Certificate System administrators.
5. Documentation for Certificate System 8.0
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