Pushing Certificates and Private Keys to Applications

Trust Protection Platform can install, or “push,” certificates and private keys to applications associated with Certificate objects. If the certificate and private key already exist on the target server, the push operation replaces the existing certificate and private key.

IMPORTANT The Application object associated with the certificate must be correctly configured for Trust Protection Platform to authenticate with the target application and copy the certificate and private key file(s) to the correct Directory in the application’s local file system.

The Push feature provides an easy and convenient way to install new certificates or update existing certificates on managed applications. However, Trust Protection Platform does not process a push operation unless the following conditions are met:

The certificate is available in the Trust Protection Platform database
The certificate’s management type is Provisioning
The certificate is not currently being processed
You can associate certificates with applications from either the Certificate or Application object configurations.

The following sections review the procedures and requirements to associate certificates with applications: