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CertificateRenewalWindowExt Plug-in Module
156 Netscape Certificate Management System Plug-Ins Guide • May 2002
critical
Specifies whether the extension should be marked critical or noncritical in
certificates specified by the
predicate
parameter. Check the box if you want the
server to mark the extension critical. Uncheck the box if you want the server to
mark the extension noncritical (default).
relativeBeginTime
Specifies the first time automatic renewal of certificate that contains the extension
should be attempted.
Permissible values:
0
or
n
.
•
0
specifies that the renewal window begins at the same time the certificate is
issued; the
beginTime
field of the extension will be set to the time of
certificate issuance.
•
n
specifies a future time for certificate renewal; the
beginTime
field of the
extension will be set to the specified time since certificate issuance. You can
specify the time period in seconds, minutes, hours, days, or months. Use the
following suffixes to indicate the time unit.
s
- seconds
m
- minutes
h
- hours
D
- days
M
- months
For example, if you’re issuing certificates with a validity period of two years
and want the renewal window to begin a month before the certificates expire,
and want to specify the interval in months, you would enter
23M
in this field.
To specify the same validity interval in seconds, you would set the value to
59616000s
(23 months x 30 days x 24 hours x 60 minutes x 60 seconds).
Example:
23M
Table 4-6
Description of parameters defined in the CertificateRenewalWindowExt module (Continued)
Parameter Description