Appendix C. Using the Dogtag CA for BYOD

As of ISE 1.2, no certificate authority (CA) is built in to ISE, and it requires an external CA. Whatever the reason, some installations require an alternative to the Microsoft CA. This appendix was created to show one such alternative to the MS Certificate Authority.

What Is Dogtag, and Why Use It?

Dogtag is an enterprise-class open source CA that Red Hat purchased from AOL back in 2004. Red Hat opened it up to the open source community in 2008. Dogtag supports all aspects of certificate lifecycle management, including key archival, OCSP and smartcard management, and much more.

Note

An enterprise-level version of Dogtag known as the Red Hat Certificate System also exists.

Prerequisites

Dogtag will ...

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