Configuring the Certification Service

Following are main steps to be taken when configuring the ADSS Certification Service. The order in which the steps are defined is not important since it is easy to go back to an earlier step and also make changes later if required.

Steps	Description
Step 1:	Configure a CA in the Manage CA(s) module that will be used to issue the certificates.
Step 2:	Configure one or more Certification/Attribute Certificate Profiles, this defines the characteristics of the keys/attribute certificates to be generated under this profile and how the public key is to be certified. Client applications refer to the Certification Profile within their request messages sent to the ADSS Certification Service.
Step 3:	Register one or more client applications within the Client Manager. These can now be authorised to make requests to one or more Certification Service Profiles.
Step 4:	Use the ADSS Certification Service Manager to start/stop/restart the service. ADSS Certification Service is required to be restarted when a Certification Profile is added/updated/deleted.

Each of these steps are described in the sections that follow: