Netscape NETSCAPE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 4.5, Installation And Setup Manual

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Stage 2. Running the Installation Wizard
266 Netscape Certificate Management System Installation and Setup Guide • October 2001
i.
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 7).
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:
a.
Open a web browser window.
b.
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.
c.
In the left-hand frame, under Server, click OCSP Responder.
d.
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.
e.
Click Submit.
f.
If the request contains all the required information, you’ll get a notification
of request being successfully added to the agent queue of that Certificate
Manager for approval by that Certificate Manager’s agent. If you’ve
permission to access that Certificate Manager’s Agent interface, you can
follow the instructions below to issue the certificate.
g.
In the web browser window, enter the URL for the Certificate Manager’s
Agent Services page. (You must use the same computer where you got
your agent certificate.)
h.
Select List Requests, then click Show Pending Requests and click Find. The
pending request list is displayed.
i.
Locate your request, click Details to see it.