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:
- Access the DCM interface, as described in Accessing DCM.
- In the navigation panel, click Select a Certificate Store. The Select a Certificate Store page displays in the task frame.
- Select the Other System Certificate Store check
box and click Continue. The Certificate Store and Password
page displays.
- In the Certificate store path and filename field,
type the IFS path and filename you set when Creating a new certificate store.
- Type a password in the Certificate Store Password field.
Click Continue. The Current Certificate
Store page displays in the task frame.
- In the Manage Certificates task category in the
navigation panel, click Export Certificate. The Export
a Certificate page displays in the task frame.
- 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.
- Select the certificate you want to export.
- Select the radio button to specify whether you want to export the certificate
to a file or directly into another certificate store.
- 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:
- Access the DCM interface, as described in Accessing DCM.
- In the navigation panel, click Select a Certificate Store. The Select a Certificate Store page displays in the task frame.
- Select the Other System Certificate Store check
box and click Continue. The Certificate Store and Password
page displays.
- In the Certificate store path and filename field,
type the IFS path and filename you set when Creating a new certificate store.
- Type a password in the Certificate Store Password field.
Click Continue. The Current(R) Certificate Store page displays in
the task frame.
- In the Manage Certificates task category in the
navigation panel, click Import Certificate. The Import
Certificate page displays in the task frame.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.