MIM Certificate Management

Certificate Management is an optional MIM component. MIM CM can be, and often is, used by itself without any other parts of MIM being present. It is also the component with the poorest integration with other components.

You will find that it hasn't changed much since its predecessor, Certificate Lifecycle Manager (CLM), was released.

MIM CM is mainly focused on managing smart cards, but it can also be used to manage and trace any type of certificate requests. This also includes machine certificates, but there is a slight limitation when we move to machine certs. FIM CM was developed around the user context.

The basic concept of MIM CM is that a smart card is requested using the MIM CM portal. Information regarding all requests ...

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