This guide contains the following elements:
Chapter 1, Overview lists Certificate System features, an overview of how the Certificate System works, an architectural overview of Certificate System, and lists the standards used in the product.
Chapter 2, Installation and Configuration provides step-by-step installation instructions.
Chapter 3, Administrative Basics provides information and procedures for performing configuration that is common to all subsystems such as using the administrative console, starting and stopping the server, viewing and setting logs, and running self-tests.
Chapter 4, Certificate Manager provides information and instructions for configuring the Certificate Manager and an overview of the configuration options.
Chapter 5, Online Certificate Status Protocol Responder provides information and instructions for configuring an Online Certificate Status Manager.
Chapter 6, Data Recovery Manager provides information and an overview of the configuration options for a Data Recovery Manager.
Chapter 7, Token Processing System describes managing tokens on smart cards through the Token Processing System (TPS).
Chapter 8, Token Key Service provides an overview of the Token Key Service (TKS), which manages the master keys required set up a secure communication channel between the TPS and the client.
Chapter 9, Enterprise Security Client provides an overview of the Enterprise Security Client, a cross-platform client for end users to register and manage keys and certificates on smart cards and tokens.
Chapter 10, Managing Certificates provides information on requesting, installing, and managing certificates.
Chapter 11, Managing Tokens provides information on managing user certificates using smart cards.
Chapter 12, Certificate Profiles provides information and procedures for configuring profiles.
Chapter 13, Revocation and CRLs provides information and procedures for configuring CRLs and revoking certificates.
Chapter 14, Publishing provides information and procedures for publishing certificates.
Chapter 16, User and Group Authorization provides information and procedures for setting up access control lists (ACL) that define authorization, creating users, and assigning users to groups to give them the privileges defined by the group ACLs.
Chapter 15, Authentication for Enrolling Certificates provides information and procedures for setting up various authentication methods to automate certificate enrollment.
Chapter 17, Automated Notifications provides information and procedures for configuring notifications.
Chapter 18, Automated Jobs provides information and procedures for configuring jobs.
Chapter 19, Configuring the Certificate System for High Availability provides information about clones and configuring the Certificate System for failover support.
Appendix A, Certificate and CRL Extensions provides general information about certificate and CRL extensions.
Appendix B, Introduction to Public-Key Cryptography provides general information about public-key cryptography.