Plan for DCM

Use this information to help you decide how and when you might use digital certificates to meet your security goals. Use this information to learn about any prerequisites you need to install, as well as other requirements that you must consider before using DCM.

To use Digital Certificate Manager (DCM) to effectively manage your company's digital certificates, you must have an overall plan for how you will use digital certificates as part of your security policy.

To learn more about how to plan for using DCM and to better understand how digital certificates can fit into your security policy, review these topics:

• DCM set up requirements
  Review this topic to make sure you have the required options installed to run Digital Certificate Manager (DCM).
• Backup and recovery considerations for DCM data
  Use this information to learn how to ensure that important DCM data is added to your backup and recovery plan for your system.
• Types of digital certificates
  Use this information to learn about the different types of digital certificates and how they are used in the Digital Certificate Manager (DCM).
• Public certificates versus private certificates
  Review this information to learn how to determine which type of certificate (public or private) best suits your business needs.
• Digital certificates for SSL secure communications
  Use this information to learn how to use certificates so that your applications can establish secure communication sessions.
• Digital certificates for user authentication
  Review this information to learn how to use certificates to provide a means of more strongly authenticating users who access iSeries™ system resources.
• Digital certificates and Enterprise Identity Mapping (EIM)
  Using Enterprise Identity Mapping (EIM) and Digital Certificate Mangers (DCM) together allows you to apply a certificate as the source of an EIM mapping lookup operation to map from the certificate to a target user identity associated with the same EIM identifier.
• Digital certificates for VPN connections
  Review this information to learn how to use certificates as part of configuring a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection.
• Digital certificates for signing objects
  Use this information to learn how to use certificates to ensure an object's integrity or to verify the digital signature on an object to verify its authenticity.
• Digital certificates for verifying object signatures
  This information explains how to use certificates to verify the digital signature on an object to verify its authenticity.