Using a digital certificate store with a dataset

You can associate the certificates in one or more certificate stores with a dataset to use multiple digital certificates during testing.

Procedure

  1. Open a test for editing. On the Common Options page, click Add Dataset.
  2. Create a dataset with two columns that contains a list of the certificates in the certificate store and a list of passphrases for the certificates. To learn more about adding datasets, see Creating a dataset in a workspace. You can use the supplied KeyTool program to generate a list of names of certificates in a certificate store.
  3. Select Fetch only once per user.
  4. Save the dataset.
  5. On the Security page, under Digital Certificates, click Add.
  6. Select a certificate from the certificate store that you created previously.
  7. Type the passphrase for the selected certificate.
  8. When prompted to dataset the digital certificate, click Yes.
  9. In the Select dataset column wizard, choose the dataset that you added previously, and substitute the appropriate columns for the certificate name and passphrase.
  10. Save the test, and then add the test to a schedule.

Results

When you run this schedule, the certificates from the certificate store are submitted to the server.