Using Entrust* Certificates with Intel Packet Protect

Change Your Entrust Profile

As you use Entrust/Entelligence* with Intel Packet Protect, you may find that you have to make changes to your profile, such as needing to recover your profile or making changes to alternate identity information.

Before making any changes to your Entrust profile that you use with Intel Packet Protect, you must stop Intel Packet Protect first. After you make your changes to your profile, we recommend that you restart your system.

To stop Intel Packet Protect

  1. Open the Control Panel (Start > Settings > Control Panel).
  2. Double-click Services.
  3. Select Intel® Policy Agent in the list of services that are currently running.
  4. Click Stop.
  5. Click Yes to confirm that you wish to stop Intel Policy Agent.

Verify your Certificate Status In Intel Packet Protect

You can verify your certificate information in Intel Packet Protect.

To Verify Certificate Status

  1. Select Start > Settings > Control Panel > Intel® Packet Protect.

  2. Click the Certificate tab. The tab displays.

Click Help to learn more about the contents of the Certificate tab.

Log On to Entrust

Each time you log on to your system, you will be prompted to log on to Entrust, as shown in the logon window:

Use the name of your profile and the password that you created during installation. You cannot use Entrust functionality unless you are logged in to Entrust.

Special Information about Rebooting Your Computer

When you reboot your computer, Intel Packet Protect security functions begin working immediately, even before you log in to Windows* NT*. However, Entrust/Entelligence* does not provide certificate functionality until you have logged in to Windows NT and to Entrust/Entelligence. This lack of functionality could be a problem for servers that use rules with certificates. You must log on to Windows NT and Entrust in order for your system to use your certificate.

Entrust has created an add-on component called Entrust/Toolkit Server Login*. When there is an unattended reboot of a computer, Server Login will log on to Entrust and full certificate support will be available.

Visit the Entrust Web site for more information.

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