Prerequisites
To start using DigiCert® Trust Lifecycle Manager's managed automation features, make sure these prerequisites are met.
Enable automation for your account
To use managed automation, your account must have the Automation feature enabled in DigiCert® Account Manager.
Contact your DigiCert account representative to verify or enable this feature.
Issuing CAs
You need one or more certificate authorities (CAs) that can issue certificates for your systems and endpoints under management.
Trust Lifecycle Manager is CA agnostic and allows you to automate private or public trust certificates from a variety of issuing CAs. You can get certificates from:
DigiCert® CA Manager: An integrated PKI environment for issuing private certificates for your organization. Contact your DigiCert account representative for help setting up a private issuing CA in CA Manager.
Other issuing CAs: To get public or private certificates from CAs outside of the integrated CA Manager environment, you need CA connectors. Select the preceding link for details about available CA connector types and how to set them up.
Required seat types
Automated certificates consume seats per deployed instance under management. Required seat types depend on the issuing CA:
Server seats: Automate private certificates issued from CAs in the integrated CA Manager environment.
Certificate management seats: Automate public or private certificates issued from CAs outside of CA Manager and accessed through CA connectors.