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• Users benefit from simplified rollout of private keys and certificates to Controller instances and Agents when using the built-in JS7 - Certificate Authority.
• Users have a choice to use an external certificate authority or to use the built-in certificate authority included that ships with JOC Cockpit.

JS7 provides a command line client available with Controller instances and Agents to create and to roll-out keys and certificates of the built-in certificate authority. Rollout of keys and certificates created with an external certificate authority are not in scope of the JS7 command line client. The functionality includes

• to authenticate with JOC Cockpit by use of a security token, see JS7 - Certificate Authority - Manage Certificates with JOC Cockpit,
• to request a private key and certificate to be created by JOC Cockpit on-the-fly,
• to update a Controller instance's or Agents configuration for use of the private key and certificate for HTTPS mutual authentication.

Prerequisites

The following conditions have to be met before the command line client can be used to rollout keys and certificates.

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