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PersonalCertificateCommands command group for the AdminTask object

Use the Jython or Jacl scripting languages to configure security with wsadmin.sh. The commands and parameters in the PersonalCertificateCommands group can be used to create and manage personal or signer certificates.

The PersonalCertificateCommands command group for the AdminTask object includes the following commands:



createChainedCertificate

The createChainedCertificate command creates a new self-signed certificate and stores the certificate in a keystore. To use the IBMi5OSKeyStore key store, verify that the signer for each part of the chain exists in the keystore before creating the new certificate. We must import the signer into the IBMi5OSKeyStore keystore before creating the new certificate.

Target object None


Required parameters

-keyStoreName

Name that uniquely identifies the keystore configuration object. (String, required)

-certificateAlias

Name that uniquely identifies the certificate request in a keystore. (String, required)

-certificateSize

Size of the certificate. (Integer, required)

-certificateCommonName

Common name of the certificate. (String, required)

-certificateOrganization

Organization of the certificate. (String, optional)


Optional parameters

-rootCertificateAlias

Unique name to identify the root certificated to use for signing. The default root certificate alias is root. (String, optional)

-certificateVersion

Version of the certificate. (String, optional)

-keyStoreScope

Scope name of the keystore. (String, optional)

-certificateOrganization

Organization of the certificate. (String, optional)

-certificateOrganizationalUnit

Organizational unit of the certificate. (String, optional)

-certificateLocality

Locality of the certificate. (String, optional)

-certificateState

State of the certificate. (String, optional)

-certificateZip

Zip code of the certificate. (String, optional)

-certificateCountry

Country of the certificate. (String, optional)

-certificateValidDays

Amount of time in days for which the certificate is valid. (Integer, optional)


Return value The command does not return output.


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createSelfSignedCertificate

The createSelfSignedCertificate command creates a self-signed personal certificate in a keystore.

Target object None.


Required parameters

-keyStoreName

The name that uniquely identifies the keystore configuration object. (String, required)

-certificateAlias

The name that uniquely identifies the certificate request in a keystore. (String, required)

-certificateVersion

The version of the certificate. (String, required)

-certificateSize

The size of the certificate. (Integer, required)

-certificateCommonName

The common name of the certificate. (String, required)


Optional parameters

-keyStoreScope

The scope name of the keystore. (String, optional)

-certificateOrganization

The organization of the certificate. (String, optional)

-certificateOrganizationalUnit

The organizational unit of the certificate. (String, optional)

-certificateLocality

The locality of the certificate. (String, optional)

-certificateState

The state of the certificate. (String, optional)

-certificateZip

The zip code of the certificate. (String, optional)

-certificateCountry

The country of the certificate. (String, optional)

-certificateValidDays

The amount of time in days for which the certificate is valid. (Integer, optional)

Example output The command does not return output.

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deleteCertificate

The deleteCertificate command deletes a personal certificate from a keystore. The command saves a copy of the certificate in the delete keystore.

Target object None.


Required parameters

-keyStoreName

The name that uniquely identifies the keystore configuration object. (String, required)

-certificateAlias

The name that uniquely identifies the certificate request in a keystore. (String, required)


Optional parameters

-keyStoreScope

The scope name of the keystore. (String, optional)

Example output The command does not return output.

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exportCertificate

The exportCertificate command exports a personal certificate from one keystore to another.

Target object None.


Required parameters

-keyStoreName

The name that uniquely identifies the keystore configuration object. (String, required)

-keyStorePassword

The password to the keystore. (String, required)

-keyFilePath

The full path to a keystore file that is located in a file system. The store from where a certificate will be imported or exported. (String, required)

-keyFilePassword

The password to the keystore file. (String, required)

-keyFileType

The type of the key file. (String, required)

-certificateAlias

The name that uniquely identifies the certificate request in a keystore. (String, required)


Optional parameters

-keyStoreScope

The scope name of the keystore. (String, optional)

-aliasInKeyStore

(String, optional)

Example output The command does not return output.

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exportCertToManagedKS

The exportCertToManagedKS command exports a personal certificate to a managed keystore in the configuration.

Target object None


Required parameters

-keyStoreName

Name that uniquely identifies the keystore configuration object. (String, required)

-keyStorePassword

The password to the keystore. (String, required)

-toKeyStoreName

Unique name of the keystore to export the certificate to. (String, required)

-certificateAlias

Alias of the certificate of interest. (String, required)


Optional parameters

-keyStoreScope

Keystore of the certificate of interest. (String, optional)

-toKeyStoreScope

Scope of the keystore to export to. (String, optional)

-aliasInKeyStore

Alias that identifies the certificate in the keystore. (String, optional)


Return value

The command does not return output.

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extractCertificate

The extractCertificate command extracts the signer part of a personal certificate to a certificate file. The certificate in the file can later be added to a keystore to establish trust.

Target object None.


Required parameters

-keyStoreName

The name that uniquely identifies the keystore configuration object. (String, required)

-certificateAlias

The name that uniquely identifies the certificate request in a keystore. (String, required)

-certificateFilePath

The full path of the request file that contains the certificate. (String, required)

-base64Encoded

Set the value of this parameter to true if the certificate is a Base64 encoded ASCII file type. Set the value of this parameter to false if the certificate is binary. (Boolean, required)


Optional parameters

-keyStoreScope

The scope name of the keystore. (String, optional)

Example output The command does not return output.

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getCertificate

The getCertificate command obtains information about a particular personal certificate in a keystore. If the certificate of interest was created with the requestCACertificate command, the certificate can be in the COMPLETE or REVOKED state. Certificate requests can be in the PENDING state. Use the getCertificateRequest command to determine if a certificate request is in the PENDING state.

Target object None.


Required parameters

-keyStoreName

The name that uniquely identifies the keystore configuration object. (String, required)

-certificateAlias

The name that uniquely identifies the certificate request in a keystore. (String, required)


Optional parameters

-keyStoreScope

The scope name of the keystore. (String, optional)

Example output The command returns information about the certificate request.

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getCertificateChain

The getCertificateChain command queries the configuration for information about each personal certificate in a certificate chain.

Target object None.


Required parameters and return values

-keyStoreName

Name of the keystore object that stores the CA certificate. Use the listKeyStores command to display a list of available keystores. (String, required)

-certificateAlias

Unique alias of the certificate. (String, required)


Optional parameters

-keyStoreScope

Specifies the management scope of the keystore. For a dmgr profile, the default value is the cell scope. For an application server profile, the default value is the node scope. (String, optional)

Example output

The command returns an array of attribute lists that contain configuration information for each certificate in a chain.

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importCertificate

The importCertificate command imports a personal certificate from a keystore.

Target object None.


Required parameters

-keyStoreName

The name that uniquely identifies the keystore configuration object. (String, required)

-keyFilePath

The full path to a keystore file that is located in a file system. The store from where a certificate will be imported or exported. (String, required)

-keyFilePassword

The password to the keystore file. (String, required)

-keyFileType

The type of the key file. (String, required)

-certificateAliasFromKeyFile

The certificate alias in the key file from which the certificate is being imported. (String, required)

-certificateAlias

The name that uniquely identifies the certificate request in a keystore. (String, required)


Optional parameters

-keyStoreScope

The scope name of the keystore. (String, optional)

Example output The command does not return output.

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importCertFromManagedKS

The importCertFromManagedKS command imports a personal certificate from a managed keystore in the configuration.

Target object None


Required parameters

-keyStoreName

Name that uniquely identifies the keystore configuration object. (String, required)

-fromKeyStoreName

Name that uniquely identifies the keystore from which the system imports the certificate. (String, required)

-fromKeyStorePassword

Password for the keystore from which the system imports the certificate. (String, required)

-certificateAliasFromKeyStore

Alias of the certificate in the keystore. (String, required)


Optional parameters

-keyStoreScope

Scope of the keystore to import the certificate to. (String, optional)

-fromKeyStoreScope

Scope of the keystore to import the certificate from. (String, optional)

-certificateAlias

Alias of the certificate for the destination keystore. (String, optional)


Return value

The command does not return output.

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listKeySizes

The listKeySizes command is an admin console helper task used to display the set of certificate key sizes that are allowed when creating a personal certificate.

By default, the set of valid key sizes include 512, 1024, 2048, 4096 and 8192. We can customize the list of comma-separated key sizes in the com.ibm.websphere.customKeySizeList security custom property. The com.ibm.websphere.customKeySizeList custom property can be set using the setAdminActiveSecuritySettings command.

Valid key sizes must be 512 or larger, but no larger then 16384, and must be multiples of 8. Any values in com.ibm.websphere.customKeySizeList that do not meet the size requirements are ignored. If the custom list does not contain anything in it when it is finished processing then the list of default sizes is returned.

Target object None.


Required parameters None.


Optional parameters None.

Example output

Returns an arrayList of sizes. The sizes are strings:

512
1024
2048
4096
8192

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listPersonalCertificates

The listPersonalCertificates command lists the personal certificates in a particular keystore.

Target object None.


Required parameters

-keyStoreName

The name that uniquely identifies the keystore configuration object. The value of this field is not a path to the keystore file. (String, required)


Optional parameters

-keyStoreScope

The scope name of the keystore.

To obtain a list of the keystore scope values, see the listManagementScopes command, which is part of the ManagementScopeCommands command group. (String, optional)

Example output

The command returns a list of attributes for each personal certificate in a keystore.

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queryCACertificate

The queryCACertificate command queries the configuration to determine if the CA has completed the certificate. If the CA returns a personal certificate, then the system marks the certificate as COMPLETE. Otherwise, it remains marked as PENDING.

Target object None.


Required parameters and return values

-keyStoreName

Name of the keystore object that stores the CA certificate. Use the listKeyStores command to display a list of available keystores. (String, required)

-certificateAlias

Unique alias of the certificate. (String, required)


Optional parameters

-keyStoreScope

Specifies the management scope of the keystore. For a dmgr profile, the default value is the cell scope. For an application server profile, the default value is the node scope. (String, optional)

Example output

The command returns one of two values: Certificate COMPLETE or certificate PENDING. If the command returns the Certificate COMPLETE message, the certificate authority returned the requested certificate and the default personal certificate is replaced. If the command returns the certificate PENDING message, the certificate authority did not yet return a certificate.

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receiveCertificate

The receiveCertificate command receives a signer certificate from a file to a personal certificate.

Target object None.


Required parameters

-keyStoreName

The name that uniquely identifies the keystore configuration object. (String, required)

-certificateAlias

The name that uniquely identifies the certificate request in a keystore. (String, required)

-certificateFilePath

The full path of the file that contains the certificate. (String, required)

-base64Encoded

Set the value of this parameter to true if the certificate is ascii base 64 encoded. Set the value of this parameter to false if the certificate is binary. (Boolean, required)


Optional parameters

-keyStoreScope

The scope name of the keystore. (String, optional)

Example output The command does not return output.

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renewCertificate

The renewCertificate command renews a certificate with a new generated certificate.

Target object None


Required parameters

-keyStoreName

Unique name that identifies the keystore. (String, required)

-certificateAlias

Unique name that identifies the certificate. (String, required)


Optional parameters

-keyStoreScope

Scope of the keystore. (String, optional)

-deleteOldSigners

Whether to delete the old signers that are associated with the old certificate. Specify false to retain the old signers. (Boolean, optional)


Return value

The command does not return output.

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replaceCertificate

The replaceCertificate command replaces a personal certificate with another personal certificate. The command finds each reference to the old certificate alias in the configuration and replaces the alias with the new one. The command also replaces each signer certificate from the old personal certificate with the signer from the new personal certificate.

Target object None.


Required parameters and return values

-keyStoreName

The name that uniquely identifies the keystore configuration object. (String, required)

-certificateAlias

The name that uniquely identifies the certificate request in a keystore. (String, required)

-replacementCertificateAlias

The alias of the certificate used to replace a different certificate. (String, required)


Optional parameters

-keyStoreScope

The scope name of the keystore. (String, optional)

-deleteOldCert

Set the value of this parameter to true if to delete the old signer certificates during certificate replacement. Otherwise, set the value of this parameter to false. (Boolean, optional)

-deleteOldSigners

Set the value of this parameter to true if to delete the old certificates during certificate replacement. Otherwise, set the value of this parameter to false. (Boolean, optional)

Example output The command does not return output.

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requestCACertificate

The requestCACertificate command creates a certificate request and sends the request to a certificate authority (CA). If the certificate authority returns a personal certificate, then the returned certificate replaces the certificate request in the keystore. The command also works with a preexisting certificate request created with the createCertificateRequest command. When the CA returns a personal certificate, the system marks the certificate as COMPLETE and the command returns a message stating that the certificate is complete. If the CA does not return a personal certificate, then the system marks the certificate request as PENDING and the command returns a message stating that the certificate is PENDING. To use the IBMi5OSKeyStore key store, verify that the signer for each part of the chain exists in the keystore before creating the new certificate. We must import the signer into the IBMi5OSKeyStore keystore before creating the new certificate.

Target object None.


Required parameters and return values

-certificateAlias

Alias of the certificate. We can specify a predefined certificate request. (String, required)

-keyStoreName

Name of the keystore object that stores the CA certificate. Use the listKeyStores command to display a list of available keystores. (String, required)

-caClientName

Name of the CA client that was used to create the CA certificate. (String, required)

-revocationPassword

Password to use to revoke the certificate at a later date. (String, required)


Optional parameters

-keyStoreScope

Specifies the management scope of the keystore. For a dmgr profile, the default value is the cell scope. For an application server profile, the default value is the node scope. (String, optional)

-caClientScope

Specifies the management scope of the CA client. For a dmgr profile, the default value is the cell scope. For an application server profile, the default value is the node scope. (String, optional)

-certificateCommonName

Common name (CN) part of the full distinguished name (DN) of the certificate. This common name can represent a person, company, or machine. For websites, the common name is frequently the DNS host name where the server resides. (String, optional)

-certificateOrganization

Organization part of the full distinguished name (DN) of the certificate. (String, optional)

-certificateOrganizationalUnity

Organization unit part of the full distinguished name (DN) of the certificate. (String, optional)

-certificateLocality

Locality part of the full distinguished name (DN) of the certificate. (String, optional)

-certificateState

State part of the full distinguished name (DN) of the certificate. (String, optional)

-certificateZip

Zip code part of the full distinguished name (DN) of the certificate. (String, optional)

-certificateCountry

Country part of the full distinguished name (DN) of the certificate. (String, optional)

-certificateSize

Size of the certificate key. The valid values are 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, and 8192. The default value is 2048. (String, optional)

Example output

The command returns one of two values: Certificate COMPLETE or certificate PENDING.

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revokeCACertificate

The revokeCACertificate command sends a request to the CA to revoke the CA personal certificate of interest.

Target object None.


Required parameters and return values

-certificateAlias

Unique name that identifies the CA personal certificate object and the alias name of the certificate in the keystore. (String, required)

-keyStoreName

Name of the keystore where the CA personal certificate is stored. (String, required)

-revocationPassword

Password needed to revoke the certificate. This is the same password that was provided when the certificate was created. (String, required)


Optional parameters

-keyStoreScope

Specifies the management scope of the keystore. For a dmgr profile, the default value is the cell scope. For an application server profile, the default value is the node scope. (String, optional)

-revocationReason

Reason for revoking the certificate of interest. The default value for this parameter is unspecified. (String, optional)

Example output

The command does not return output. Use the getCertificate command to view the current status of the certificate, as the following example displays:

AdminTask.getCertificate('-certificateAlias myCertificate -keyStoreName CellDefaultKeyStore')

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Create self-signed certificates using scripting
Add a signer certificate to a keystore
Use the wsadmin scripting AdminTask object for scripted administration
Configure security with scripting


Related


ManagementScopeCommands command group
Use wsadmin scripting with Jython

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