Auxiliary Components64 Netscape Certificate Management System Installation and Setup Guide • March 2002Event-Driven NotificationsThe Certificate Manager and Registration Manager support two kinds ofevent-driven notifications:• Request-completion status. Automatically notifies users by email that arequested certificate has been issued or that a request has been deferred orrejected. Available for Registration Manager or Certificate Manager.• Request-queue status. Automatically notifies agents by email when a requesthas been added to the request queue. Available for Registration Manager orCertificate Manager.For more information, see Chapter 16, “Setting Up Automated Notifications.”Auxiliary ComponentsIn addition to the core components that are discussed in the preceding sections,Certificate Management System also comes with command-line utilities or toolsand Software Development Kit.Table 1-7 Default publisher plug-in modules for publishing certificates and CRLsPlug-in module name FunctionFileBasedPublisher Publishes certificates and CRLs to a flat file (for exporting into otherrepositories).LdapCaCertPublisher Publishes or unpublishes a certificate to the caCertificate;binaryattribute of the mapped directory entry as a DER encoded binary blob. Alsoconverts the object class to a certificationAuthority if it’s not onealready; similarly, removes the certificationAuthority object classon unpublish if the CA has no other certificates.LdapCrlPublisher Publishes (replaces) a CRL to thecertificateRevocationList;binary attribute of the mappeddirectory entry as a DER encoded binary blob. The entry should be acertificationAuthority object class.LdapUserCertPublisher Publishes or unpublishes a certificate to the userCertificate;binaryattribute of the mapped directory entry as a DER encoded binary blob.OCSPPublisher Publishes CRLs to a Online Certificate Status Manager.
