7.9. Setting up a Standalone KRA or OCSP

This section describes how to install a standalone KRA and OCSP. A standalone installation provides the flexibility to use a non-Certificate System CA to issue the certificates, because the CSRs generated during the installation are not automatically submitted to the CA and imported into the subsystem. Additionally, a KRA or an OCSP installed in standalone mode is not part of the CA's security domain, and the connector in the CA for key archival will not be configured.
To install a standalone KRA or OCSP:
  1. Create a configuration file, such as /root/config.txt, with the following content: 
    [DEFAULT]
pki_admin_password=password
pki_client_database_password=password
pki_client_pkcs12_password=password
pki_ds_password=password
pki_token_password=password
pki_client_database_purge=False
pki_security_domain_name=EXAMPLE

pki_standalone=True
pki_external_step_two=False
  2. For a standalone KRA, add the following section to the configuration file: 
    [KRA]
pki_admin_email=kraadmin@example.com
pki_ds_base_dn=dc=kra,dc=example,dc=com
pki_ds_database=kra

pki_admin_nickname=kraadmin
pki_audit_signing_nickname=kra_audit_signing
pki_sslserver_nickname=sslserver
pki_storage_nickname=kra_storage
pki_subsystem_nickname=subsystem
pki_transport_nickname=kra_transport

pki_standalone=True
  3. For a standalone OCSP, add the following section to the configuration file: 
    [OCSP]
pki_admin_email=ocspadmin@example.com
pki_ds_base_dn=dc=ocsp,dc=example,dc=com
pki_ds_database=ocsp

pki_admin_nickname=ocspadmin
pki_audit_signing_nickname=ocsp_audit_signing
pki_ocsp_signing_nickname=ocsp_signing
pki_sslserver_nickname=sslserver
pki_subsystem_nickname=subsystem

pki_standalone=True
  4. To use an LDAPS connection to Directory Server running on the same host, add the following parameters to the DEFAULT section in the configuration file: 
    pki_ds_secure_connection=True
pki_ds_secure_connection_ca_pem_file=path_to_CA_or_self-signed_certificate

    Note

    For security reasons, Red Hat recommends using an encrypted connection to Directory Server.
    If you use a self-signed certificate in Directory Server, use the following command to export it from the Directory Server's Network Security Services (NSS) database: 
    # certutil -L -d /etc/dirsrv/slapd-instance_name/ \
     -n "server-cert" -a -o /root/ds.crt
  5. Proceed with the steps described in the section called “Starting the Installation of a Subsystem with an External CA”.