15.1 Using Certificate Administration workflows

The Certificate Administration section of the More category allows you to launch MyID Desktop workflows to work with certificates.

You can carry out the following:

• Approve Key Recovery

  Launches the Approve Key Recovery workflow in MyID Desktop to allow you to approve a request for a key recover where the credential profile used to request the key recovery has the Validate Issuance option set.

  See the Validating a key recovery request section in the Administration Guide for details.

• Certificate Requests

  Launches the Certificate Requests workflow in MyID Desktop to allow you to view the status of all pending certificates in the system. You can also choose to pause the certificate request and resume it at a later date.

  See the Viewing pending certificate requests section in the Operator's Guide for details.

• Collect Certificates

  Launches the Collect Certificates workflow in MyID Desktop to allow you to collect any pending certificates onto a smart card.

  See the Collecting certificates section in the Operator's Guide for details.

• Collect Key Recovery

  Launches the Collect Key Recovery workflow in MyID Desktop to allow you to collect a key recovery job and write the certificates containing the recovered keys to a smart card.

  See the Collecting a key recovery job for another user section in the Administration Guide for details.

• Issued Certificates

  Launches the Issued Certificates workflow in MyID Desktop to allow you to list all the certificates that have been issued by the system; this allows you to revoke or suspend, as well as change the renewal details for them.

  See the Viewing issued certificates section in the Operator's Guide for details.

• Recover Certificates

  Launches the Recover Certificates workflow in MyID Desktop to allow you to recover certificates to another user's card. You can also recover soft certificates to a PFX file.

  See the Recovering someone else's certificates section in the Operator's Guide for details.

• Request Key Recovery

  Launches the Request Key Recovery workflow in MyID Desktop to allow you to request a key recovery job.

  See the Requesting a key recovery section in the Administration Guide for details.

• Revoked Certificates

  Launches the Revoked Certificates workflow in MyID Desktop to allow you to list all the certificates that have been issued by the system; this allows you to unsuspend certificates that have been suspended.

  See the Viewing revoked certificates section in the Operator's Guide for details.

• Validate Certificate Request

  Launches the Validate Certificate Request workflow in MyID Desktop to allow you to validate a request for a soft certificate package.

  See the Validating soft certificate requests section in the Operator's Guide for details.

• View Key Recovery

  Launches the View Key Recovery workflow in MyID Desktop to allow you to view the details of all completed, canceled, or in progress key recovery operations.

  See the Viewing key recovery operations section in the Administration Guide for details.