Set up your account

To prepare your working environment in DigiCert® Trust Lifecycle Manager, set up users and API access, verify your licenses (seats), and customize your account settings and metadata.

Topic	Description
Users and access	Learn about user roles and permissions for Trust Lifecycle Manager, and how to set up access for user admins and API service users.
Seats	Learn how to monitor and manage the seat licenses in your Trust Lifecycle Manager account.
Business units	Business units help you organize your assets by assigning them to relevant divisions within your organization.
Certificate metadata	Metadata helps you organize your certificates by adding business context beyond what's included in the certificates themselves.
Assignment rules	Set up rules to automatically assign certificate metadata and administrative fields based on the conditions you define.
Trust anchors	Add the certificates for your root and intermediate certificate authorities (CAs), helping Trust Lifecycle Manager analyze and calculate security ratings for end-entity certificates issued by these CAs.
Self-service portal	Set up the self-service portal so your users can download, manage, or enroll their own certificates, lessening the burden on admins and support teams.
Other settings	Your account settings include options to configure an admin contact for your organization, apply branding, and customize how automation and discovery features work.

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