System information

requests and explains how to handle different aspects of certificate request management. A

CM agent is responsible for handling requests by end entities (end users, server

administrators, or other Certificate System subsystems) for certificates using manual

enrollment.

• Chapter 5, CA: Finding and Revoking Certificates Explains how to use the agent services

page to find and examine a specific certificate issued by Certificate System, how to retrieve a

list of certificates that match specified criteria, how to revoke certificates, and how to manage

the certificate revocation list.

• Chapter 6, CA: Publishing to a Directory Describes how a CM agent can update the LDAP

directory with the current status of certificates.

• Chapter 7, DRM: Recovering Encrypted Data Describes how to process key recovery

requests and how to recover stored encrypted data when the encryption key has been lost.

This service is only available when a Data Recovery Manager (DRM) is installed.

• Chapter 8, OCSP: Agent Services Describes how to handle tasks related to the Certificate

System OCSP responder, Online Certificate Status Manager. This service is only available

when the OCSP subsystem is installed.

• Chapter 9, TPS: Agent Services Describes how to perform tasks related to the Token

Processing System and how to manage tokens and certificates through this subsystem. This

service is only available when the TPS subsystem is installed.

4. Document Conventions

Certain words in this manual are represented in different fonts, styles, and weights. This

highlighting indicates that the word is part of a specific category. The categories include the

following:

Courier font

Courier font represents commands, file names and paths, and prompts .

When shown as below, it indicates computer output:

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Mail backupfiles mail reports

bold Courier font

Bold Courier font represents text that you are to type, such as: service jonas start

If you have to run a command as root, the root prompt (#) precedes the command:

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