Appendix A: Certificate Management
Instant Connect provides for the management of certificate bundles through certstore, and esctools.
Certstore is a proprietary file format employed by Instant Connect to encapsulate certificate bundles. During installation, the ICE OS Installation Wizard provides the option to create a cerstore for you.Ecstools is a command line tool for managing certificate bundles.► To prevent permission issues when using ecstool, ensure the tool has executable permissions and the user running the agent has read and execute access to the bin and cert directories.
chmod +x <path to ice-agent>/bin/ecstool
chmod +rx <path to ice-agent>/bin
chmod +rx <path to ice-agent>/cert
To create a cerstore during installation
During installation using the ICE OS Installation Wizard, select Create Cerstore.To manually create a certstore using ICE Agent
Run the following command on the ICE Agent host machine:./agent tools cert create-certstores
The generated files reside in the /cert/ directory