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Chapter 8. Managing PKI ACME Responder

This chapter describes how to manage PKI ACME Responder.

For information on how to set up PKI ACME Responder, see the Setting up PKI ACME Responder chapter in the Red Hat Certificate System Planning, Installation, and Deployment Guide.

8.1. Enabling/Disabling ACME Services
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Users that belong to the Administrators group can enable or disable services in the ACME responder. The user can authenticate either with basic authentication or client certificate authentication.

  • To enable or disable ACME services with basic authentication, specify the username and password: 

    $ pki -u <username> -p <password> acme-<enable/disable>
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  • To enable or disable ACME services with client certificate authentication, specify the certificate nickname and NSS database password: 

    $ pki -n <nickname> -c <password> acme-<enable/disable>
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8.2. Checking the Status of PKI ACME Responder
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To check the status of the ACME responder, run the following command: 

$ pki acme-info
Status: Available
Terms of Service: https://www.example.com/acme/tos.pdf
Website: https://www.example.com
CAA Identities: example.com
External Account Required:false
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If the services are disabled, the command will show the following result: 

$ pki acme-info
Status: Unavailable
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Note

The actual output depends on what is configured in the metadata.conf configuration file.

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