Certificate Issuance Trends with Metadata

The Certificate Issuance Trends with MetadataClosed Metadata provides information about a piece of data. It is used to summarize basic information about data, which can make working with the data easier. In the context of Keyfactor Command, the certificate metadata feature allows you to create custom metadata fields that allow you to tag certificates with tracking information about certificates. report produces tables and pie charts showing currently active certificates based on the selected input parameters as follows: the number of certificates per requester and the number of certificates per metadata value for each of the metadata fields chosen, based on the certificate collectionClosed The certificate search function allows you to query the Keyfactor Command database for certificates from any available source based on any criteria of the certificates and save the results as a collection that will be availble in other places in the Management Portal (e.g. expiration alerts and certain reports). chosen. Multiple tables and charts will be produced when the report is generated.

Note:  Clicking on a bar on the graph, or a section of a pie chart or line graph, will open a new window as a drill down to the certificate search grid filtered for the exact criteria of that aspect of the graph. You can return to the original report by navigating to the original report window.

Figure 71: Certificate Issuance Trends with Metadata: Requesters

Figure 72: Certificate Issuance Trends with Metadata: Metadata Table and Chart

The export options for the Certificate Issuance Trends with Metadata report are Excel and PDF.

Note:  When either scheduling or exporting this report as an Excel file, the output will not include the graphs.

The input parameters for this report are:

  • Collections: The name of the collection to report on.

  • The start date and end date for the report: The definition of the date range for the report.
  • Metadata: Check a metadata field from the pop-up to select it for this report.
  • Requesters: A comma-separated list of requester user names (do not included the domain name).
Tip:  If you Save a new certificate collection, or Save a change to an existing certificate collection, that change will be immediately reflected in the collection data used to display certificate collections on dashboards and reports. The data used by the dashboards and reports is stored in an intermediate table that is updated immediately. It will also continue to be updated periodically (approximately every 20 minutes by default as configured by the Dashboard Collection Caching Interval application setting) by the Keyfactor Command Service (see Application Settings: Console Tab).
Note:  By default, this report is configured not to appear on the top menu under Reports and can be found only in Report Manager. You can change this by modifying the Show in Navigator setting (see Report Manager Operations).
Note:  Other than the option of certificates with no associated CAClosed A certificate authority (CA) is an entity that issues digital certificates. Within Keyfactor Command, a CA may be a Microsoft CA or a Keyfactor gateway to a cloud-based or remote CA., only CAs currently configured for synchronization are available for reporting.