1.2 Getting Started

Before calling any of the Novell Certificate Server functions, you must create a context, set the tree name, and login and authenticate to the tree. Call these APIs in the following order:

  1. NPKICreateContext
  2. NPKISetTreeName
  3. NPKIConnectToIPAddress
  4. NPKIDSLogin

When these steps are completed, you need to finish up and clear the context by calling NPKIFreeContext (see Section 2.23, Housekeeping Tasks).

For an example of how to use the login functions, see LoggingIn.