Transferring certificates

This section tells you how to extract a certificate from a certificate store to allow it to be copied to another system, and how to add a certificate from another system into your certificate store.

Exporting a certificate from a key repository

Perform the following steps on the machine from which you want to export the certificate:

  1. Access the DCM interface, as described in Accessing DCM.
  2. In the navigation panel, click Select a Certificate Store. The Select a Certificate Store page displays in the task frame.
  3. Select the Other System Certificate Store check box and click Continue. The Certificate Store and Password page displays.
  4. In the Certificate store path and filename field, type the IFS path and filename you set when Creating a new certificate store.
  5. Type a password in the Certificate Store Password field. Click Continue. The Current Certificate Store page displays in the task frame.
  6. In the Manage Certificates task category in the navigation panel, click Export Certificate. The Export a Certificate page displays in the task frame.
  7. Select the radio button for your certificate type and click Continue. Either the Export Server or Client Certificate page or the Export Certificate Authority (CA) Certificate page displays in the task frame.
  8. Select the certificate you want to export.
  9. Select the radio button to specify whether you want to export the certificate to a file or directly into another certificate store.
  10. If you selected to export a server or client certificate to a file, you provide the following information:

Importing a certificate into a key repository

Note:
Before you import a personal certificate in PKCS #12 format into DCM, you must first import the corresponding CA certificate.

Perform the following steps on the machine to which you want to import the certificate:

  1. Access the DCM interface, as described in Accessing DCM.
  2. In the navigation panel, click Select a Certificate Store. The Select a Certificate Store page displays in the task frame.
  3. Select the Other System Certificate Store check box and click Continue. The Certificate Store and Password page displays.
  4. In the Certificate store path and filename field, type the IFS path and filename you set when Creating a new certificate store.
  5. Type a password in the Certificate Store Password field. Click Continue. The Current(R) Certificate Store page displays in the task frame.
  6. In the Manage Certificates task category in the navigation panel, click Import Certificate. The Import Certificate page displays in the task frame.
  7. Select the radio button for your certificate type and click Continue. Either the Import Server or Client Certificate page or the Import Certificate Authority (CA) Certificate page displays in the task frame.
  8. In the Import File field, type the filename of the certificate you want to import and click Continue. DCM automatically determines the format of the file.
  9. If the certificate is a Server or client certificate, type the password in the task frame and click Continue. DCM informs you that the certificate has been imported.