designs/management-console/VMI_Certificate_Exchange.md

27 HMC requires client key, client.crt, and CA.crt to establish secure connection
38 Management console needs an API through which it can send the CSR to VMI (CA)
39 and gets the signed certificate and the CA certificate from VMI. This design
54 - VMI acts as root CA only for VMI endpoints, its not an official CA and uses
66 The management console can send CSR string to VMI (CA) and get signed
67 certificate and Root CA certificate via proposed BMC interface.
81     |  (client)  |        |        |            |  (CA)  |
97   CA.crt                       |                    |
142 Response: This will return the certificate string which contains and root CA
165 - CSR certificate is passed onto the CA to sign the certificate and then upload
174   for management console to get CSR certificate signed by VMI (CA).
176   request to CA to get signed by CA.
178   return signed certificate and Root CA certificate.