You can associate the certificates
in one or more certificate stores with a datapool to use multiple
digital certificates during testing.
About this task
To use a digital certificate store with a datapool:
Procedure
- Open a test for editing. On the Common Options page,
click Add Datapool.
- Create a datapool with two columns that contains a list
of the certificates in the certificate store and a list of passphrases
for the certificates. To learn more about adding datapools, see Creating a datapool in the workspace. You can use the supplied KeyTool program
to generate a list of names of certificates in a certificate store.
To learn more about KeyTool, see Creating a digital certificate store.
- Select Fetch only once per user.
- Save the datapool.
- On the Security page, under Digital
Certificates, click Add.
- Select a certificate from the certificate store that you
created previously.
- Type the passphrase for the selected certificate.
- When prompted to datapool the digital certificate, click Yes.
- In the Select datapool column wizard,
choose the datapool that you added previously, and substitute the
appropriate columns for the certificate name and passphrase.
- Save the test, and then add the test to a schedule.
Results
When you run this schedule, the certificates from the certificate
store are submitted to the server.