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Overview of the Default Demo
108 Netscape Certificate Management System Installation and Setup Guide • October 2001
Overview of the Default Demo
The default demo installation described in this chapter is intended to provide a
quick, hands-on experience of the basic Certificate Management System interfaces.
It is intended for demonstration purposes only and relies on a number of default
settings that may not be appropriate for a mission-critical installation. Before you
attempt to install more sophisticated pilots or a full-scale deployment, read
Chapter 4, “Planning Your Deployment” and the chapters that follow.
The default demo installation includes the following Netscape software:
• Netscape Console. Netscape Console is described in a separate guide,
Managing Servers with Netscape Console. It is a standalone Java application used
to manage Netscape server instances with the aid of a configuration directory
and a user directory. For this demo, Netscape Console controls just the server
instances listed here; the configuration and user directories are combined in a
single Netscape Directory Server instance. In real deployments, Netscape
Console can be set up to control a variety of servers in different instances and
on different machines that are registered with a single configuration directory,
which could potentially be separate from the user directory.
• Netscape Administration Server. This lightweight HTTP server acts as the
back end to Netscape Console. An instance of Administration Server manages
operation requests involving any Netscape servers installed in the same server
root, or server group, and invokes CGI programs to perform these operations.
For this demo, a single Administration Server instance provides administrative
access to the Directory Server instance and Certificate Manager instance listed
below—the only other server instances in the same server group.
• Configuration and User Directory (Netscape Directory Server). This is an
instance of Netscape Directory Server with two subtrees. The user subtree
keeps track of users and groups and their privileges (for the Administration
Server, not for Certificate Management System). The configuration subtree
keeps track of the location on the network of Netscape servers. For this demo,
the configuration subtree keeps track of itself, the Administration Server
instance, the single instance of Certificate Management System, and a separate
instance of Netscape Directory Server that serves as the internal database for
Certificate Management System. For this demo, the user subtree is also used as
the user and group directory for directory-based authentication and
publishing.
• Certificate Manager. For this demo, the single instance of Certificate
Management System contains a Certificate Manager that is configured to
perform registration tasks as well as CA tasks.