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5.5. Tracing Issued Certificate to CSR, and CSR to Issued Certificate

This section details how a CA agent can trace an issued certificate to the original submitted CSR, and from a CSR to an issued certificate.
If a certificate request has been approved successfully, a CA agent can do the following to search for the request and see the CSR matching the certificate:
  1. Access the https://host_name:port/ca/agent/ca.
  2. Click Search for Requests
  3. Select and fill in Request ID Range (for example 12 for Lowest Request ID and 12 for Highest Request ID.
  4. Select Request Type and choose enrollment type.
  5. Select Request Status and choose completed status
  6. Make sure everything else is unselected.
  7. Click Submit.
  8. Click on the request number. You see the certificate in clear text at this point.
  9. To display the CSR and certificate linking, right-click and select This Frame and View Frame Source.
    • Search for inputList.inputName="Certificate Request";. The request is the inputList.inputVal below that.
    • Search for outputList.outputSyntax="pretty_print";. The certificate is the outputList.outputVal below that.
To search from certificate to CSR:
  1. Access the https://host_name:port/ca/agent/ca.
  2. Click Find.
  3. Click Details.
  4. You see the certificate in clear text, along with a Request ID link. Click on the link to open the Request page.
  5. To display the certificate and CSR linking:
    • Search for inputList.inputName="Certificate Request";. The request is the inputList.inputVal below that.
    • Search for outputList.outputSyntax="pretty_print";. The certificate is the outputList.outputVal below that.
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