Configuring a Subsystem to Run Automated Jobs546 Netscape Certificate Management System Installation and Setup Guide • May 2002For information on adding or changing job-specific information in theconfiguration file, see “Changing the Configuration by Editing the ConfigurationFile” on page 338.Step 1. Before You BeginBefore configuring a Certificate Manager or Registration Manager to run jobs, besure to do the following:• Read Chapter 2 , “Job Plug-in Modules” of CMS Plug-Ins Guide, and determinethe jobs you want the server to run. To locate an online version of this guide,see “Where to Go for Related Information” on page 28.Jobs that you might want to schedule include email notifications of timedevents (such as the expiration of a certificate) that require action on the part ofusers, and periodic activities such as removing expired certificates from thepublishing directory.• Each job uses templates for formulating the notification-message andsummary-message contents. Be sure to read the “Customizing NotificationMessages” section to get familiar with the templates the server uses forformulating notification messages. If you want to customize them, do thatbefore you start configuring a job plug-in; check the list of tokens to see ifthey’re useful for customizing your message body.Step 2. Modify Existing JobsModifying a job involves changing the configuration parameter values of the jobinstance; you cannot change the name of a job. To change the name of a job, create anew job using the same job plug-in module (that you used to create the job youwant to rename) with the same parameter values, and delete the old one.As a part of modifying a job, you can change its status from enabled to disabled orvice versa by checking or unchecking the enable parameter. A subsystem executesonly those jobs that are enabled.During installation, the Certificate Manager and Registration Managerautomatically create a set of jobs (that you would most likely want to use) using thejob plug-in modules registered by default. Figure 17-1 shows the jobs created for aCertificate Manager. The Registration Manager also has a similar list. Table 17-1summarizes the default jobs created for both Certificate Manager and RegistrationManager.
