Issued Certificates per Certificate Authority

The Issued Certificates per Certificate AuthorityClosed 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. report includes line graphs showing the number of certificates issued for each templateClosed A certificate template defines the policies and rules that a CA uses when a request for a certificate is received. in the selected date range for the selected template(s) on the selected 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.. A separate line graph is generated for each template. An option to report on certificates that are not associated with any CA is included.

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 86: Issued Certificates per CA

The export options for the Issued Certificates per Certificate Authority report are Excel and PDF.

The input parameters for this report are:

  • The evaluation date for the report. This report covers a specified number of days, weeks or months ending with this date. The default evaluation date is the current date, meaning certificates issued up to the current date will be included in the report.

  • The number of periods to include in the report. This is how many days, weeks or months of data to include in the report. The default is 6.
  • The period length for the report. The options are days, weeks or months. The default is weeks.
  • Which CA to include in the report. This includes the option to report on certificates that have no associated CA. Typically, these would be certificates found via SSLClosed TLS (Transport Layer Security) and its predecessor SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) are protocols for establishing authenticated and encrypted links between networked computers. scanning or inventory on certificate stores. Only one CA option can be reported on at a time.

  • The template(s) to include in the report. A separate line graph is generated for each template selected for reporting. Templates that are available for issuance from more than one CA are reported separately by CA, so only certificates issued for the selected template and the selected CA will be shown. When the Certificates Not Associated with CA option is selected for the CA, the No Template option should be selected for the template.

    Note:  The Display Name cannot be updated for parameters of type Templates.
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 CA, only CAs currently configured for synchronization are available for reporting.