SRC-PE Release 1.0.x Getting Started Guide > Managing Security Digital Certificates > Obtaining Digital Certificates through SCEP

Obtaining Digital Certificates through SCEP

You can use SCEP to help manage how you obtain digital certificates, or you can manually add certificates.

For information about manually obtaining certificates, see Manually Obtaining Digital Certificates.

To add a signed certificate that you obtain through SCEP:

1. Request a CA certificate through SCEP.

user@host> request security get-ca-certificate url url ca_identifier ca_identifier

where:

• url is the URL of the certificate authority (which is the SCEP server).
• ca-identifier is the identifier that designates the authority.

For example, to request a certificate from the CA authority SdxCA at a specified URL on the server security_server:

user@host> request security get-ca-certificate url 
http://security_server:8080/ejbca/publicweb/apply/scep/pkiclient.exe 
ca-identifier SdxCA

Version: 3

Serial Number: 5721058705923989279

Signature Algorithm: SHA1withRSA

Issuer: CN=SdxCA

Valid From: Wed Sep 06 17:00:55 EDT 2006

Valid Until: Sat Sep 03 17:10:55 EDT 2016

Subject: CN=SdxCA

Public key: RSA

Thumbprint Algorithm: SHA1

Thumbprint: 3c 57 a9 77 af 83 3 e9 c7 1e ee e2 4a e8 ff f3 89 f4 11 a9

Do you want to add the above certificate as a trusted CA [yes,no] ? (no) y

2. Request that the certificate authority automatically sign the certificate request.

user@host> request security enroll subject subject password password

where:

• subject is the distinguished name of the SRC host; for example cn=myhost.
• password is the password received from the certificate authority for the specified subject.

For example, to request a certificate from the CA authority SdxCA at a specified URL on the server security_server:

user@host> request security enroll url 
http://security_server:8080/ejbca/publicweb/apply/scep/pkiclient.exe 
identifier web ca-identifier SdxCA subject cn=myhost password mypassword 

Received certificate:

Version: 3

Serial Number: 6822890691617224432

Signature Algorithm: SHA1withRSA

Issuer: CN=SdxCA

Valid From: Tue Sep 19 16:33:11 EDT 2006

Valid Until: Thu Sep 18 16:43:11 EDT 2008

Subject: CN=myhost

Public key: RSA

Do you want to install the above certificate [yes,no] ? (no) y

3. Verify that the certificate is part of the SRC configuration.

user@host> show security certificate

web subject:CN=myhost

If there are no certificates on the system, the CLI displays the following message:

No entity certificates in key store