Tools for Managing Security

The Enterprise Server provides the following tools for managing security:

• Admin Console, a browser-based tool used to configure security for the entire server, to manage users, groups, and realms, and to perform other system-wide security tasks. For a general introduction to the Admin Console, see Tools for Administration. For an overview of the security tasks consult the Admin Console online help.

• asadmin, a command-line tool that performs many of the same tasks as the Admin Console. You may be able to do some things with asadmin that you cannot do with Admin Console. You perform asadmin commands from either a command prompt or from a script, to automate repetitive tasks. For a general introduction to asadmin, see Tools for Administration.

The Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) provides two tools for managing security:

• keytool, a command-line utility for managing digital certificates and key pairs. Use keytool to manage users in the certificate realm.

• policytool, a graphical utility for managing system-wide Java security policies. As an administrator, you will rarely need to use policytool.

For more information on using keytool, policytool, and other Java security tools, see JDK Tools and Utilities at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/#security.

In the Enterprise Profile, two other tools that implement Network Security Services (NSS) are available for managing security. For more information on NSS, go to http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/. The tools for managing security include the following:

• certutil, a command-line utility for managing certificates and key databases.

• pk12util, a command-line utility used to import and export keys and certificates between the certificate/key databases and files in PKCS12 format.

For more information on using certutil, pk12util, and other NSS security tools, see NSS Security Tools at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/tools.