Managing SSL Certificates

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My employer recently had a major outage because an SSL certificate expired.
Consequently, we are now trying to get a better handle on our SSL
certificates. Toward that end, we are looking for a way to centrally manage
our SSL certificates. We have an environment that includes Windows 2003,
Unix, Linux, and Novell servers, and a mainframe system.

I would be interested in knowing if anyone out there has any experience with
products that can centrally manage SSL certificates, and if so what are the
names of the products and the pros can cons of each product that you've
used?

I would also be interested in hearing from anyone who has a scripting
solution for this problem.

Thanks for any help that you can offer.

--Tom
 
Re: Managing SSL Certificates

What about the Certificate Console.msc tool. You can manage all your
ccertificates there as well as disply expiration dates.

"Thomas M." <NoEmailReplies@Please.com> wrote in message
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> My employer recently had a major outage because an SSL certificate
> expired. Consequently, we are now trying to get a better handle on our SSL
> certificates. Toward that end, we are looking for a way to centrally
> manage our SSL certificates. We have an environment that includes Windows
> 2003, Unix, Linux, and Novell servers, and a mainframe system.
>
> I would be interested in knowing if anyone out there has any experience
> with products that can centrally manage SSL certificates, and if so what
> are the names of the products and the pros can cons of each product that
> you've used?
>
> I would also be interested in hearing from anyone who has a scripting
> solution for this problem.
>
> Thanks for any help that you can offer.
>
> --Tom
>
 
Re: Managing SSL Certificates

That tool only looks at the local machine by default. I know that it can be
configured to look at remote machines, but we have hundreds of servers that
would need to be configured in the snap-in, so unless there is something
that I am missing it seems to me that using MMC is not really a workable
solution.

--Tom

"AllenM" <noreply@NoEmail.com> wrote in message
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> What about the Certificate Console.msc tool. You can manage all your
> ccertificates there as well as disply expiration dates.
>
> "Thomas M." <NoEmailReplies@Please.com> wrote in message
> news:edRBqeXKJHA.5460@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> My employer recently had a major outage because an SSL certificate
>> expired. Consequently, we are now trying to get a better handle on our
>> SSL certificates. Toward that end, we are looking for a way to centrally
>> manage our SSL certificates. We have an environment that includes
>> Windows 2003, Unix, Linux, and Novell servers, and a mainframe system.
>>
>> I would be interested in knowing if anyone out there has any experience
>> with products that can centrally manage SSL certificates, and if so what
>> are the names of the products and the pros can cons of each product that
>> you've used?
>>
>> I would also be interested in hearing from anyone who has a scripting
>> solution for this problem.
>>
>> Thanks for any help that you can offer.
>>
>> --Tom
>>
>
>
 
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