Manual Enrollment

This section takes you through the process of enrolling an end-entity to obtain a certificate. To complete this section you must have successfully completed the Installation module and have a CMS subsystem running on your target machine.

Perform manual enrollment of dummy users on your system.

CMS4 Help on User Enrollment

Prerequisites

To be successful in this exercise you must have completed the following activities or have the following information at hand: 
  • You must have imported the agent's certificate into the system you are using.
  • You must use the SSL Agent port and the SSL End-Entity port (in the installation module we recommended that you use 17004 and 17005 respectively).

Procedure

In this exercise you will play several roles, first you will play the part of an end-entity requesting a certificate using the manual user enrollment form. Then you will switch to the agent role and approve the request through the CMS agent interface. To accomplish this you will use two browser windows to get your certificate, one browser window will act as the end-entity interface, the other browser window will be the CMS agent interface.

Read the following steps. You can view each step then perform the operation on your system, or read all the steps first then perform the operation.

Step 1

In your browser's Netsite field, enter the URL for the end-entity enrollment form.


Figure 6.3

Step 2

The enrollment form is presented, fill in the fields as indicated. 


Figure 6.4

Step 3

Start another Navigator window.


Figure 6.5

Step 4

In the new browser window's Netsite field, enter the URL for the CMS agent form. When requested, present your CMS Administrator certificate and use the CMS agent form to approve the end entity certificate request as d

Figure 6.6

Step 5

From the end-entity form (the first browser window) retrieve and import the certificate.&


Figure 6.7

With the completion of Step 5, you have successfully enrolled with the CMS4 system. You can view your certificates by clicking on the Security icon on your browser's Navigation Toolbar. The following demonstrates this.


Figure 6.8

This concludes this exercise.

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