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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:

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

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

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
```

Obtaining Digital Certificates through SCEP

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