Certificate Search and Collections

The Keyfactor Command database can include certificates from many locations—including certificates synchronized from your Microsoft CAs in both the primary forestClosed and alternate forests, certificates synchronized from your EJBCA CAs, certificates synchronized from cloud-based certificate vendors via the Keyfactor certificate gateways, certificates automatically imported based on configured SSLClosed endpointClosed locations (see SSL Discovery), certificates imported from certificate stores (see Certificate Stores), and manually imported certificates (see Add Certificate). The Certificate Search function allows you to query the database for certificates from any available source. You do not need to specify the source as part of the query.

A specific certificate search may be saved as a collectionClosed, which can then be revisited without needing to enter the search selections again. The saved collection can then be referenced from other parts of the Management Portal (e.g. expiration alerts, the dashboard, and select reports). Certificate collections may be added to the Certificates menu of the Management Portal for quick access. Several default certificate collections are created in new installations. For more information, see Certificate Collection Manager.

Note:  The options shown and described in this section are available to full administrative users of the Management Portal. Users with limited access to the Management Portal will not see all the options (e.g. the recover buttons may not appear) and will see some slightly different buttons (e.g. the edit buttons shown may say view instead of edit).