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PKI CA Certificate CLI

Endi S. Dewata edited this page Sep 21, 2024 · 5 revisions

PKI CA Certificate CLI

Overview

The pki ca-cert commands provide an interface to manage certificates and certificate requests in CA.

To manage certificate profiles, see PKI CA Profile CLI.

To manage certificate requests, see PKI CA Certificate Request CLI.

Listing Certificates

To list all certificates:

$ pki ca-cert-find

To list certificates with specific status:

$ pki ca-cert-find --status VALID

To list certificates with specific name:

$ pki ca-cert-find --name "Subsystem Certificate"

Displaying a Certificate

To display a particular certificate:

$ pki ca-cert-show <certificate ID>

Generating a Certificate Request

To generate a certificate request, see Generating Certificate Request.

Submitting a Certificate Request

To submit a certificate request, See also Submitting Certificate Request.

Retrieving a Certificate

To retrieve a certificate:

$ pki ca-cert-show <certificate ID> --encoded --output <filename>

Revoking a Certificate

Revoking, holding, or releasing certificates must be executed as a CA agent.

To revoke a certificate:

$ pki <agent authentication> ca-cert-revoke <certificate ID>

To hold a certificate temporarily:

$ pki <agent authentication> ca-cert-hold <certificate ID>

To release a certificate that has been held:

$ pki <agent authentication> ca-cert-release-hold <certificate ID>

Checking Certificate Status

The pki ca-cert-status provides a simpler way to test OCSP request by downloading the issuer certificate automatically from the server. However, the proper OCSP request should be generated using the proper OCSP client with the issuer certificate already installed on the client.

To check certificate status using the CA’s internal OCSP responder:

$ pki ca-cert-status <certificate ID>

To check certificate status using other OCSP responder:

$ pki ca-cert-status <certificate ID> --ocsp http://$HOSTNAME:8080/ocsp/ee/ocsp

See also OCSPClient.

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