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End-to-End Lifecycle Management of Trusted CA Certificates

Key Manager Plus facilitates end-to-end life cycle management of certificates obtained from trusted certificate authorities (CAs) enabling users to acquire, consolidate, deploy, renew and track certificates issued by commercial CAs from a single interface. This functionality powered through a seamless API integration with The SSL Store—one of the largest platinum partners of world's leading CAs—provides users the option to acquire and manage certificates from the following third-party CAs using Key Manager Plus: Sectigo (formerly Comodo), Symantec, Thawte, Geotrust, and RapidSSL.

Follow the steps below to place certificate orders, acquire, consolidate, deploy and manage trusted third-party CA certificates from Key Manager Plus.

1. Configure API authentication credentials in Key Manager Plus

The first step to request and manage third-party CA certificates from Key Manager plus is to sign up for an Enterprise account at The SSL Store portal and configure the API credentials generated subsequently in Key Manager Plus' interface. To set up an Enterprise account with The SSL Store,

2. Place a certificate order

Once you have configured your API authentication credentials, you can leverage The SSL Store's API to generate certificate signing requests (CSRs), place orders, procure, and manage certificates from any of the following certificate authorities directly from Key Manager Plus: Sectigo, Symantec, Thawte, Geotrust, and RapidSSL.

To generate a CSR and place a certificate order,

Disclaimer: The procurement of public CA certificates from Key Manager Plus can be successfully completed only if the user has signed up for an enterprise account with The SSL Store™. Key Manager Plus imports certificates after issue using The SSL Store™'s API for providing better PKI management functionality. All personal information (including payment details) is collected and processed by The SSL Store™ and ManageEngine is not responsible for any payment related issues. Please contact the SSL Store™ technical support team if you are facing any difficulties with payment and procurement of certificates from public CAs affiliated with The SSL Store™ using Key Manager Plus.