Netscape NETSCAPE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 4.5, Installation And Setup Manual

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Privileged-User Types and Responsibilities
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Agents
Agents are users who have been assigned end-entity certificate- and
key-management privileges. Certificate Management System defines four agent
roles, one for each of its subsystems: Certificate Manager agents, Registration
Manager agents, Data Recovery Manager agents, and Online Certificate Status
Manager agents.
Agents interact with the corresponding CMS manager to manage operations such
as these:
• List, approve, and reject pending certificate issuance and renewal requests
• List certificates
• Search for certificates
• Revoke end-entity certificates
• Manually update certificates and CRLs stored in a publishing directory
• Manage key archival and retrieval requests
• Manually add CRLs to the Online Certificate Status Manager
• See the list of OCSP requests processed by the Online Certificate Status
Manager
For a complete list of agent tasks, see CMS Agent’s Guide. To locate this guide, see
“Where to Go for Related Information” on page 28.
All agents perform their tasks through HTML forms-based interfaces. The HTML
forms an agent uses to manage a specific subsystem are grouped together and
named after the subsystem they represent. For example, the forms-based interface
provided for the Certificate Manager is called Certificate Manager Agent Services (see
Figure 13-1). For more information, see “Agent Services Interface” on page 68.
Agents cannot access the CMS window and perform the tasks provided within the
Netscape Console framework—unless they are given administrator privileges.