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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:

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

#### Related Topics

- Before You Use Digital Certificates
- Removing a Certificate Request
- Overview of Digital Certificates
- Commands to Manage Digital Certificates

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