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LifeCycleX FAQs

 

GlobalSign’s LifeCycleX is a powerful certificate lifecycle management solution and is designed to support the needs of any sized organization and can be used for a multitude of use cases. It simplifies the complexities of managing digital certificates issued by Public CAs, Microsoft CAs and EJBCA Open Source CAs, helps maintain compliance, and reduces the risk of certificate-related outages. The secure, yet fully featured dashboard enables administrators and role-based users to efficiently monitor, manage, action and report on all aspects of certificate management requirements without the need for additional tools.

As of now, one profile is allowed in LifeCycleX, and the multiple profiles feature is yet to be added.

Discovery scans are done on IP ranges, subnets, and configured ports. Additional scans on internal devices can be done on machine certificate stores. Discovery is CA agnostic, not limited to the CAs which are configured for provisioning.

No, certificate packs must be purchased through your account on GCC prior to certificate provisioning.

All certificates can be added to the inventory for monitoring with the discovery feature. Provisioning of certificates can be done for GlobalSign and DigiCert.

Yes, LifeCycleX works in both with the support of proxy and remote LifeCycleX server configurations.

No. At this time LifeCycleX is only offered as an on-prem solution.

Yes, as long as it is joined to an Active Directory domain.

LifeCycleX has direct plugins for NetScaler, F5 appliances, Citrix and Azure key vault, SCCM, and supports Kubernetes using cert-manager.

Not as a direct plugin but using API or Script as workaround it can support. A direct plugin will be developed.

Yes, using the LifeCycleX client, automation of provisioning and configuration of TLS can be done on your web server, as well as with the use of plugins.

ACME is planned for a future release, but currently there is no support for ACME.

Yes, using a client or plug-in, the certificates ownership will be associated with a domain user, but may be provisioned to non-domain joined machines.

At this time, LifeCycleX only supports on-prem Active Directory.

Yes, reporting and alerts can be configured in LifeCycleX, and can be configured to alert multiple email addresses, and a summary of events and statuses can be viewed in real time within the LifeCycleX dashboard.

Yes, LifeCycleX allows for the granular assignment of permissions to Active Directory groups.