Netscape Certificate Management System 6.2, Administrator'S Manual

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Installing an Online Certificate Status Manager
Chapter 5 OCSP Responder 177
V.
Enter the URL for the Certificate Manager’s Agent Services page. (You
must authenticate using your agent certificate.)
VI.
Select List Requests, then click Show Pending Requests and click Find.
The pending request list is displayed.
VII.
Locate your request, click Details to see it, and make any changes.
Then, scroll down to the bottom of the form and click Accep this
request.
VIII.
After the certificate is generated, click Show Certificate.
IX.
When the certificate is displayed, scroll down to the base-64 encoded
version of the certificate, highlight all the text (including
-----BEGIN
CERTIFICATE -----
and
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
), and copy it
to the clipboard or to a text file.
Be sure to not make any changes to the certificate. You’re required to
paste the encoded certificate into the Installation Wizard next. So, once
you’ve copied the certificate, go back to the wizard screen (Step 13).
Also note that you might be required to paste the CA certificate chain
in the Installation Wizard. So, keep the browser window open.
❍
To submit your certificate request manually to a Certificate Manager,
follow these steps:
I.
Open a web browser window.
II.
Go to the end-entity URL for the Certificate Manager that will issue the
Online Certificate Status Manager’s signing certificate.
For example, if you assigned the port number 17006 to the non-SSL
end-entity port for your CA, you would go to the URL
http://<hostname>:17006
to bring up the Certificate Manager page
for end entities.
III.
Click Manual OCSP Manager Signing Certificate Enrollment.
IV.
In the OCSP Responder Enrollment page that appears, paste the
request from the clipboard into the field labeled PKCS #10 Request and
fill in any other required information.
V.
Click Submit.