System information

TPS: Agent Services
This chapter describes how to perform Token Processing System (TPS) agent tasks, such as
listing smart card tokens and resetting card PINs. Agents can manage the smart cards and the
certificates stored on the cards. The TPS agent services page allows authorized agents to
accomplish these tasks.
NOTE
Smart cards are also referred to as tokens in this chapter and in the TPS agent
and admin services pages.
1. Basic Operations for an Agent and Administrator
The TPS agent services page contains two tabs, one for agent operations and one for
administrator operations. The agent operations cover routine token management such as
setting the token status, searching and listing tokens and certificates, resetting token PINs, and
searching the TPS internal database. The administrator page has additional options to add and
delete tokens from the database.
An administrator user is created when the TPS instance is first configured. This user has both
administrator and agent privileges. The administrator can create additional agents by creating
new user entries in the LDAP database. For more information on creating users in the Red Hat
Directory Server, see the Directory Server Administration Guide.
NOTE
There is no HTML end entities page for TPS services since end entity tasks are
performed through the Enterprise Security Client.
The TPS agent tasks include the following:
• Listing tokens.
• Adding new tokens by token CUID.
• Editing token attribute token policies.
• Searching tokens by CUID or user ID.
• Listing certificates associated with tokens.
• Searching certificates by token CUID or user ID.
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