Hey all,

When configuring your IOS router as a CA Server, I've read that you need to
configure that very CA server's trustpoint and authenticate & enroll with
it.

In the past, every time I've configured a router as a CA server, the
trustpoint is always auto-configured as soon as I  "no shutdown" on the CA
server i.e. I never configure the trustpoint on the CA server once I've
setup the CA Server itself.

I then proceed to configure the other devices that need to enroll with the
CA Server, and they authenticate each other (authentication rsa-sig)
successfully using the certificates when building VPNs. The difference I've
noticed though, when I dont configure the trustpoint on the CA Server is
that with the auto-configured trustpoint on the CA Server, the "enrollment
url" statement isnt there.

Example:

crypto pki server R6CASERVER
 database url flash:
 grant auto
 no shutdown

crypto pki trustpoint R6CASERVER
 enrollment url http://6.6.6.6:80                                 <- in the
auto-configured trustpoint (once you run "no shutdown" above) this statement
doesnt exist
 revocation-check crl

What is everybody else's experience when configuring CA Servers, and what's
the best recommendation for me to adopt going forward ?

Mark
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