When you receive an inbound Certificate Request message
from your trading partner:
- An email notification of the inbound Certificate Request (CEM) message is sent to the
email addresses specified in the Admin Email Address field on the
Other tab in Configure System Options panel with information about
the received certificates and the "Respond By" date by which a response should be sent. See Other system options
- The received certificates are stored in the certs\pending folder until they are either
accepted or rejected; or manually installed by you when it is deemed necessary.
- The status of the partner record in the Trading Partner Certs panel
is set to Pending.
- The Signing Certificate field is updated to indicate that there is
a new pending certificate, although it is not used to validate signed messages until after
it has been accepted. Likewise, the encryption field is not updated until after the new
encryption certificate is accepted.