Introduction to Red Hat Certificate
System Migration
Netscape Certificate Management System (CMS) versions 6.0x, 6.1, and 6.2 can be migrated to
Red Hat Certificate System version 7.3 using the Red Hat Certificate System migration utility.
Certificate System has the ability to extract data from the installation of a previous version and
migrate this data to 7.3. Each Certificate System subsystem is migrated independently.
• Product downgrade, extracting information from a newer version to import into an older
version, is not supported by the migration utility in any version of the Certificate System.
• Certificate System 7.3 does not support in-place upgrades. This is true even when the
installations are on the same machine, running the same platform. For example, a Certificate
Management System 6.2 installation on a machine named
delta.example.com
running Red
Hat Enterprise Linux has to be migrated to Certificate System 7.3 installation, even if the 7.3
installation is on the same machine named
delta.example.com
running Red Hat Enterprise
Linux. This is accomplished simply by supplying a different installation directory for each
instance.
NOTE
Throughout this manual, all system instances are referred to as Certificate
System, unless the specific version or product name is required.
1. Certificate System Migration Overview
The migration process is staged to migrate the different subsets of Certificate System
information separately. The general process is as follows:
1. Install the Certificate System 7.3 subsystem instances.
2. Migrate the Certificate Management System 6.x security databases, which contains the key
and certificate materials for the server, to the Certificate System 7.3 instances.
3. Migrate the password database information for Certificate Management System 6.x to the
Certificate System 7.3 password file.
4. Migrate the Certificate Management System 6.x internal databases, which contain user and
group entries, to the Certificate System 7.3 server.
5. Migrate customized server configuration data from the 6.x server to Certificate System 7.3.
Chapter 1.
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