PTS Certificates

All NREN Primary Customers are allowed to access the PTS. Write to pert-managers@geant2.net in order to apply for an access certificate. In your request please include the following information:

• Name:
• Country (the two-letter ISO abbreviation):
• State or Province Name:
• City:
• Organization:
• Organizational Unit:
• Email:
• PERT role: [Primary Customer]
  • PERT Manager
  • Case Manager
  • Subject Matter Expert
  • Primary Customer (NREN administrators, etc.)

Installing your PTS certificate

Authorization and authentication in PTS is performed using X.509 certificates signed by a trusted Certificate Authority. To access the PTS a user should add their certificate to the favourite browser. The text below describes, step-by-step, how to install PERT certificates, using Mozilla Firefox version 1.0 as an example. Note, you have to save the PERT certificate before you are able to install it.

Go to “Edit -> Preferences” (Fig. 1) and then to “Advanced -> Manage Certificates” (Fig. 2):

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Next click “Manage Certificates” – a new window will open (Fig. 3). Choose “Import” and select your certificate file. You will be asked for the certificate's password (which you will receive with the file you are sent). If you enter the correct password, your certificate should be successfully imported.

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Before you use the certificate with PERT Ticket System, you should change the installed authority entry. In Certificate Manager window choose the page “Authorities”. Scroll down until you see the entry from PSNC called “PERT Ticket System CA”. Select it and click 'Edit' (Fig. 4).

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Activate the checkbox “This certificate can identify web sites”. Then click on “OK”.This completes the installation of the PERT Ticket System user certificate is finished and You are now be able to use the PTS with assumed privileges level.

-- TobyRodwell - 03 Jun 2005