Included in Certificate Manager delivery

The CM distribution package consists of the following items:

• All documentation related to CM servers and CM clients. See Smart ID Certificate Manager.

• Installation files for both CM servers and CM clients for either Windows or Linux operating systems. The Windows distribution also contains installation files for Key Generation System (KGS) and WinEP.

• Upgrade instructions to upgrade from previous versions of CM server and CM clients to the current version.

In order to verify the integrity of the distribution package the SHA256 checksum is provided along with the distribution download.

Certificate Manager server components for Windows and Linux are included. 

A delivery of Certificate Manager server components consists of the following items:

• Installation packages
  Certificate Manager installation package contains all components including the Boot kit.

• Delivery note
  Specification of the contents of the delivery.

In order to complete the bootstrap you need to retrieve the separately provided soft tokens, see below: “Soft boot officers”.

Certificate Manager clients for Windows and Linux are included. 

A delivery of Certificate Manager client components consists of the following items:

• Installation packages
  Certificate Manager installation package contains all components.

• Delivery note
  Specification of the contents of the delivery.

The Boot kit consists of a number of files provided in the installation package. The CA's private key is the same for all delivered systems and they must be replaced. The Boot kit files are listed and their purposes described in the following table:

Soft tokens (PKCS#12) for bootstrap officers are required to login to the CM clients to perform the necessary bootstrap instructions. They are not delivered with the CM installation package and needs to be retrieved separately from Nexus support portal.

The following utility programs can be used together with Smart ID Certificate Manager (CM). 

Nexus Personal Desktop Client

The utility functions in Nexus Personal Desktop Client are used to handle smart card and software tokens. In Windows, a shortcut to the program is found in the Certificate Manager startup menu. User documentation for Personal Desktop Client is also available in the online help file accessible via the Help button in the dialog boxes of the program.

hwsetup

For more information, see Initialize Hardware Security Module for use in Certificate Manager. 

pkcs command-line tool

For more information, see pkcs12 command-line tool in Certificate Manager.

ROCA scanner command-line tool

For more information, see ROCA scanner command-line tool in Certificate Manager.

subjectstool command-line tool

For more information, see Subjectstool command-line tool in Certificate Manager.

ActiveEntitiesTool command-line tool

For more information, see ActiveEntitiesTool command-line tool in Certificate Manager.