Administrators can start, stop, and restart the Entrust Proxy for Microsoft CA with the following commands.

MSCAProxy.exe start
MSCAProxy.exe stop
MSCAProxy.exe resstart

Once started, you can use a Chrome browser to check that the Entrust Proxy for Microsoft CA is running correctly.

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 the operation was successful.