Entrust PKI as a Service

Requesting eForm entities

Follow the steps below to request an eForm entity and the corresponding certificate.

To request an eForm entity:

  1. Generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) for a TLS certificate using your preferred tools.

  2. Follow Accessing your instances to log in to the PKIaaS user interface using an account with one of the following roles:

  3. Click Enrollment Workflows in the sidebar.

    Enrollment Workflows
  4. Select an eForm workflow configuration.

  5. On the workflow details page, click Request Entity.

    Request Entity
  6. Paste the CSR contents under Paste a CSR.

    Enrollment Workflows
  7. Configure the following settings for the certificate you are issuing.

Subject

The Distinguished Name (DN) of the certificate subject (locked).

The Common Name (CN) field in this Distinguished Name is determined as follows.

CN in CSR SANs in CSR CN in issued certificate
✔ ✔ The CN in the CSR
✔ The first SAN in the CSR
The first SAN added by the user in the Additional SANs field

The other fields are DN Components selected when Creating an eForm enrollment workflow.

DNS Name

The DNS names defined as Subject Alternative Names in the CSR or added using the Additional SANs field.

  • The first DNS name is locked and matches the CN.
  • You can delete the remaining DNS names.

Additional SANs

The Domain Names you want to manually add as Subject Alternative Names (SANs).

 This field is mandatory when the CSR contains neither a CN nor a SAN field.