The Certificate System Administrator's Guide describes how to set up, configure, and administer the Certificate System subsystems and how to configure backend certificate management functions, such as publishing and logging. The Administrator's Guide also describes how to configure subsystems to relate to one another to manage certificates and tokens and how to manage certificates and tokens; this guide is targeted for Certificate System administrators.
The Certificate System Agent's Guide describes how agents — users responsible for processing certificate requests and managing other aspects of certificate management — can use the Certificate System subsystems web services pages to process certificate requests, key recovery, OCSP requests and CRLs, and other functions.
The documentation for Certificate System includes the following guides:
Certificate System Administrator's Guide explains all administrative functions for the Certificate System, such as adding users, creating and renewing certificates, managing smart cards, publishing CRLs, and modifying subsystem settings like port numbers.
Certificate System Agent's Guide details how to perform agent operations for the CA, RA, DRM, and TPS subsystems through the Certificate System agent services interfaces.
Certificate System Command-Line Tools Guide covers the command-line scripts supplied with Red Hat Certificate System.
Managing Smart Cards with the Enterprise Security Client explains how to install, configure, and use the Enterprise Security Client, the user client application for managing smart cards, user certificates, and user keys.
Certificate System Migration Guides cover version-specific procedures for migrating from older versions of Certificate System to Red Hat Certificate System 7.3.
Release Notes contains important information on new features, fixed bugs, known issues and workarounds, and other important deployment information for Red Hat Certificate System 7.3.
Additional Certificate System information is provided in the Certificate System SDK, an online reference to HTTP interfaces, javadocs, samples, and tutorials related to Certificate System. A downloadable zip file of this material is available for user interaction with the tutorials.
For the latest information about Red Hat Certificate System, including current release notes, complete product documentation, technical notes, and deployment information, see http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/cert-system/.