Previous installations of Red Hat Certificate System, Netscape Certificate Management System (CMS), or iPlanet Certificate Management System (iCMS, also known as Sun^TMONE Certificate Server) can be migrated to Red Hat Certificate System version 7.3 or later using the Red Hat Certificate System migration utility.

This manual covers how to migrate legacy Certificate Systems to Red Hat Certificate System version 7.3. The first sections provide an overview of migration and of the Red Hat Certificate System migration utility, as well as some considerations to review before beginning migration. The next sections cover the steps of migration for all supported legacy versions, including an example migration from Netscape Certificate Management System 6.1 (SP 4) on Solaris 8 to Red Hat Certificate System 7.3 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.