System information

1. About This Guide ................................................................................................... 1
1. Who Should Read This Guide ......................................................................... 1
2. Required Concepts ........................................................................................ 1
3. What is in This Guide ..................................................................................... 1
4. Document Conventions .................................................................................. 2
5. Documentation .............................................................................................. 4
2. Agent Services ...................................................................................................... 5
1. Overview of Certificate System ....................................................................... 5
1.1. Certificate System Sub-systems ........................................................... 5
1.2. Certificate System Users ..................................................................... 7
2. Agent Tasks .................................................................................................. 8
2.1. Certificate Manager Agent Services .....................................................10
2.2. Data Recovery Manager Agent Services ..............................................11
2.3. Online Certificate Status Manager Agent Services ................................12
2.4. Token Processing System Agent Services ...........................................13
3. Forms for Performing Agent Operations ..........................................................14
4. Accessing Agent Services .............................................................................18
3. CA: Working with Certificate Profiles ......................................................................21
1. About Certificate Profiles ...............................................................................21
1.1. Categories of Certificate Profiles .........................................................21
2. Profile Operations Performed by CA Agents ...................................................21
3. List of Certificate Profiles ...............................................................................22
3.1. Example Profile ..................................................................................25
4. How Certificate Profiles Work .........................................................................27
5. Enabling and Disabling Certificate Profiles ......................................................28
5.1. Getting Certificate Profile Information ..................................................28
5.2. End User Certificate Profile .................................................................29
5.3. Policy Information ...............................................................................29
5.4. Approving a Certificate Profile .............................................................29
5.5. Disapproving a Certificate Profile .........................................................30
4. CA: Handling Certificate Requests .........................................................................31
1. Managing Requests ......................................................................................31
2. Listing Certificate Requests ...........................................................................33
2.1. Selecting a Request ...........................................................................36
2.2. Searching Requests ...........................................................................37
3. Approving Requests ......................................................................................38
4. Sending an Issued Certificate to the Requester ...............................................40
5. CA: Finding and Revoking Certificates ....................................................................43
1. Basic Certificate Listing .................................................................................43
2. Advanced Certificate Search ..........................................................................44
3. Examining Certificates ...................................................................................48
4. Revoking Certificates ....................................................................................49
4.1. Searching for Certificates to Revoke ....................................................50
4.2. Revoking One or More Certificates ......................................................51
5. Managing the Certificate Revocation List ........................................................54
5.1. Viewing or Examining CRLs ................................................................54
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