Steps for accessing the administration home page

Perform the following preliminary steps to access the administration home page:

Get your organization's URL for accessing the PKI Services Web pages. Enter this URL in your browser. This takes you to the PKI Services administration start page.
The administration start page contains a button for the administration home page (see the default "PKI Services Administration" home page in Figure 1) and a button for each end-user home page (see the default "PKI Administrators Start Page" in Figure 1).
Figure 1. PKI Services administration start page

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If this is the first time you have accessed these Web pages, you must install the CA certificate into your browser. Click the Install the CA certificate link and follow the directions.
The following is a sample of the directions to follow for installing the CA certificate on Internet Explorer:
1. After you click the Install the CA certificate link, a popup window called "File download" appears. Make sure the "Open this file from its current location" radio button is selected (rather than "Save this file to disk"). Then click OK. The following is an example of the popup window you might see, depending on the CA certificate you have installed:
  Figure 2. The certificate popup window for installing the CA certificate
2. Click Install certificate. (This initiates a series of pop-ups in which you need to click Next and finally Finish, culminating in a popup window that says "The import was successful").
Note: If you are using the Internet Explorer browser on a Microsoft Windows Vista system, you must explicitly select a store to place the certificate in. For more information, see Installing the PKI Services CA certificate on a Microsoft Windows system.

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Click Go to administration page.
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You will be prompted to authenticate, as shown in the following figure. Provide the necessary information:
Figure 3. Entering your user ID and password
1. Fill in your z/OS user ID and password.
2. If you want to eliminate having to reenter your user ID and password each time you access the administration pages, check the check box.
3. Click OK.
  This calls up the "PKI Services Administration" Web page. (See Figure 1.)
Notes:
- Your Web server programmer might provide you with an alternate URL for accessing the administration home page. You might also have to authenticate using a certificate instead of a user ID and password.
- Your browser caches the authentication information that you provide. Therefore, if you need to change this information, you first must close all instances of your browser. Then open the browser and, when the panel shown in Figure 3 appears, enter the correct information.
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