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Step C. Download the Certificate to the Browser
To download the certificate into your browser’s certificate database:
1.
In the confirmation page, scroll down to the section that says “Installing this
certificate in a client.”
2.
Follow the on-screen instructions and download the certificate to your
browser’s certificate database.
(An alternative way to download the certificate is from the Retrieval tab of the
end-entity services interface.)
3.
Open the browser’s security information window and verify that the certificate
has been stored in the certificate database.
Step D. Check the File for the Certificate
Whenever the Certificate Manager issues a certificate, it automatically attempts to
publish the certificate to the configured repository—in this case, the file. To check
whether the Certificate Manager published the correct certificate, you need to do
the following:
1.
Check whether the server generated the DER-encoded file containing the
certificate.
To check whether the server published the certificate as a binary blob to the
specified directory, go to the directory or folder you specified for the server to
publish certificates. You should see a file with name similar to
cert-<serial_number>.der
, where
<serial_number>
specifies the serial
number of the certificate contained in the file. If you don’t see a file, check your
configuration.
2.
Convert the DER-encoded certificate to its base 64-encoded format using the
Binary to ASCII tool (see Chapter 8, “Binary to ASCII Tool” of CMS
Command-Line Tools Guide).
To convert the DER-encoded certificate to its base 64-encoded form:
a.
Open a command window.
b.
Go to this directory:
<server_root>/bin/cert/tools
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