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Knowledge Base

The TLSPilot User Manual as articles: 117 articles in 23 categories, with screenshots and the matching tutorial videos.

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QP

Quick path

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    1

    Short introduction

    • Why automation matters
    • ACME briefly explained
    2 articles
    2

    Concepts and planning

    • Choosing the right issuer
    • What to consider for each issuer
    • Helper, Deployment and Health
    3 articles
    3

    System requirements

    • Management host
    • Ports and listeners
    • Network connectivity
    • + 1 more
    4 articles
    4

    Getting started

    • Setup
    • Initial Setup Wizard
    • After the setup
    • + 1 more
    4 articles 2 with video
    5

    My first certificates

    • Private CA (PC)
    • Enterprise CA (EC)
    • ACME certificate (AC)
    • + 1 more
    4 articles 4 with video
    6

    My first deployments

    • Local store
    • IIS
    • Tabs Manual and Discovery
    • + 7 more
    10 articles 6 with video
    7

    Keep it renewing

    • Deployment & health cycle
    • When the renewal runs
    • When renewal and deployment run together
    • + 6 more
    9 articles
    8

    WebUI

    • Configure or change the WebUI
    • Open the WebUI
    • Limitations
    3 articles 1 with video
    9

    RBAC

    • Break-the-glass accounts
    • Roles
    • Assign roles
    • + 3 more
    6 articles 1 with video
    10

    Tenants

    • Create a tenant
    • Restrict roles to tenants
    • Assign credentials to tenants
    • + 2 more
    5 articles 1 with video
    11

    External credential stores

    • Connect an external credential store
    • Use a secret from the external store
    • Use managed service accounts
    3 articles 1 with video
    12

    Alerts and logging

    • Configure alert channels
    • Create alerts
    • Logging
    • + 1 more
    4 articles 1 with video
    13

    Certificate options

    • Change the issuer or name of a certificate
    • Delete a certificate
    • Versions of a certificate
    • + 3 more
    6 articles 1 with video
    14

    Backup and restore

    • Scheduled backup
    • Create a backup manually
    • Restore
    3 articles 1 with video
    15

    Troubleshooting

    • ACME
    • DNS-01
    • HTTP-01 and TLS-ALPN-01
    • + 7 more
    10 articles
    16

    Support

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      17

      PowerShell module

      • Requirements
      • Import the module and check the connection
      • Find the commands and their help
      • + 11 more
      14 articles
      18

      ACME in depth

      • How ACME works
      • ARI – ACME Renewal Information
      • ACME profiles
      • + 6 more
      9 articles
      19

      Certificate formats

      • Encoding: DER and PEM
      • Containers: PEM, CRT, CER, PFX and P7B
      • Parts of a certificate: leaf, intermediates, root and key
      • + 6 more
      9 articles
      20

      Appendix: WinRM and SSH setup

      • WinRM within the domain
      • WinRM outside the domain
      • SSH for Linux targets
      • + 1 more
      4 articles
      21

      Glossary

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        22

        Appendix: Automatic tasks and timings

        • Automatic tasks: standard cases
        • Automatic tasks: special cases
        2 articles