Certificate management components
Before we talk about certificate management, we need to understand the underlying components and architecture:
As depicted before, we have several components at play. We will start from the left to the right. From a high level, we have the Enterprise CA. The Enterprise CA can be multiple CAs in the environment. Communication from the CM application server to the CA is over the DCOM/RPC channel. End user communication can be with the CM web page or with a new REST API via a modern client to enable the requesting of smart cards and the management of these cards.
From the CM perspective, the two mandatory components ...
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