Method to automate the renewal of digital certificates
First Claim
Patent Images
1. A method for automatically renewing digital certificates in a managed network, said method comprising the steps of:
- receiving notifications regarding a managed digital certificate;
identifying a managed server corresponding to a digital certificate referred to in a received notification;
communicating with the managed server, the communicating causing the managed server to generate a certificate signing request and return the request to the managing device;
transmitting a generated and received certificate signing request to a certificate authority;
receiving a certificate signed by a certificate authority generated from a certificate signing request;
identifying a destination managed server corresponding to a received certificate signed by a certificate authority;
installing a received certificate signed by a certificate authority to an identified destination managed server; and
configuring an identified destination managed server to use a private key corresponding to an installed certificate.
11 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
Disclosed herein are several digital certificate discovery and management systems. Detailed information on various example embodiments of the inventions are provided in the Detailed Description below, and the inventions are defined by the appended claims.
57 Citations
25 Claims
-
1. A method for automatically renewing digital certificates in a managed network, said method comprising the steps of:
-
receiving notifications regarding a managed digital certificate;
identifying a managed server corresponding to a digital certificate referred to in a received notification;
communicating with the managed server, the communicating causing the managed server to generate a certificate signing request and return the request to the managing device;
transmitting a generated and received certificate signing request to a certificate authority;
receiving a certificate signed by a certificate authority generated from a certificate signing request;
identifying a destination managed server corresponding to a received certificate signed by a certificate authority;
installing a received certificate signed by a certificate authority to an identified destination managed server; and
configuring an identified destination managed server to use a private key corresponding to an installed certificate. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
-
-
14. A method for automatically renewing digital certificates in a managed network, said method comprising the steps of:
-
receiving notifications from a certificate authority regarding a managed digital certificate;
identifying a managed server corresponding to a digital certificate referred to in a received notification;
communicating with the managed server, the communicating causing the managed server to generate a certificate signing request and return the request to the managing device;
transmitting a generated and received certificate signing request to a certificate authority;
receiving a certificate signed by a certificate authority generated from a certificate signing request;
identifying a destination managed server corresponding to a received certificate signed by a certificate authority;
installing a received certificate signed by a certificate authority to an identified destination managed server;
configuring an identified destination managed server to use a private key corresponding to an installed certificate; and
performing a restart action selected from the group of commanding an identified destination managed server to perform a restart, commanding an identified destination managed server to restart and notifing an administrator to restart a destination server program or destination server computer. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
-
-
23. A method for automatically renewing digital certificates in a managed network, said method comprising the steps of:
-
receiving notifications from a certificate authority regarding a managed digital certificate;
receiving, in response to a request for approval, an indication from an administrator that a certificate is to be renewed or installed;
identifying a managed server corresponding to a digital certificate referred to in a received notification;
communicating with the managed server, the communicating causing the managed server to generate a new asymmetric key pair, the communicating further causing the managed server to generate a certificate signing request and return the request to the managing device;
transmitting a generated and received certificate signing request to a certificate authority;
receiving a certificate signed by a certificate authority generated from a certificate signing request;
identifying a destination managed server corresponding to a received certificate signed by a certificate authority;
installing a received certificate signed by a certificate authority to an identified destination managed server, the installing being performed by accessing the identified destination managed server using a corresponding object of said authentication objects, the installing utilizing a protocol selected from the group of a shell interface, an agent interface and a network interface provided by a web interface of a web server;
configuring an identified destination managed server to use a private key corresponding to an installed certificate; and
performing a restart action selected from the group of commanding an identified destination managed server to perform a restart, commanding an identified destination managed server to restart and notifing an administrator to restart a destination server program or destination server computer. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25)
-
Specification