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Online certificate status protocol

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Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) enables ONTAP applications that use TLS communications, such as LDAP or TLS, to receive digital certificate status when OCSP is enabled. The application receives a signed response signifying that the certificate requested is good, revoked, or unknown.

OCSP enables determination of the current status of a digital certificate without requiring certificate revocation lists (CRLs).

By default, OCSP certificate status checking is disabled. It can be turned on with the command security config ocsp enable -app name, where the app name can be autosupport, audit_log, fabricpool, ems, kmip, ldap_ad, ldap_nis_namemap, or all. The command requires advanced privilege level.