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Obtain a Key/Certificate Pair for Federated Transactions

CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone uses a key/certificate pair and trusted certificates for a number of functions. For CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone to perform tasks that use keys and certificates, these items must be in the certificate data store.

If you do not have a key/certificate pair in the certificate data store, you have two options:

The following figure shows the steps for each method of obtaining a key/certificate pair or trusted certificate.

Flow diagram for importing or generating key or cert pairs