Setting up an online responder

When a lot of certificates are revoked on a CA, certification revocation checks may become slow. In this case, you can add the Online Responder role service to the CA. Use this recipe to configure the Online Responder role on an existing CA.

Getting ready

Sign in with local administrator privileges to the Windows Server-based CA that you intend to add the Online Responder feature to.

How to do it…

Setting up an online responder consists of the following steps:

1. Installing the Online Responder role service
2. Configuring the online responder

Installing the Online Responder role service

Perform these steps to configure an online responder for the CA:

1. Press Start.
2. Search for Server Manager or run servermanager.exe. The Server Manager window appears.
3. In the gray top bar of Server Manager, click Manage.
4. Select Add Roles and Features from the menu.
5. The Add Roles and Features Wizard window appears...