Administrators can run and manage the Entrust Proxy for Microsoft CA with the following commands.

  • MSCAProxy.exe start
  • MSCAProxy.exe stop
  • MSCAProxy.exe restart

Once started, you can check the correct execution of the Entrust Proxy for Microsoft CA using a Chrome browser.

To check the execution of the Entrust Proxy for Microsoft CA

  1. Run the following command to generate a PKCS#12 from the mscaproxyclient.jks keystore. 

    keytool -importkeystore -srckeystore mscaproxyclient.jks -destkeystore mscaproxyclient.p12 -srcstoretype JKS -srcstorepass <SRCSTOREPASS> -deststoretype PKCS12 -deststorepass <DESTSTOREPASS>
  2. Import the generated mscaproxyclient.p12  file into Chrome.
  3. Go to:

    https://<proxyserver>:8443/MSCAProxy/rest/status/ping
  4.  Check the server response. The "MS CA proxy is running" message indicates a correct operation.