<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 10:25 PM Amreesh Phokeer <<a href="mailto:amreesh@afrinic.net">amreesh@afrinic.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Noah,<br>
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> On 10 Apr 2019, at 23:13, Noah <<a href="mailto:noah@neo.co.tz" target="_blank">noah@neo.co.tz</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Just curious could a bash/python script + cron locally on the Offline CA box achieve the same level of automation monthly without any manual intervention from humans. <br>
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> The human manual involvement can still be automated local to the same offline box imho.<br>
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No because: <br>
(1) the Offline CA is kept offline (shutdown) in a secured environment and brought up only at the time of the refresh.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>There is not way to automate this bruh....</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
(2) the box is not physically connected, so the CRLs and MFTs files need to be copied manually to the online repository.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Understood.... in this case the humans need to be automated so that they are more efficient until such time when the robots will replace humans :-)</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Amreesh</blockquote></div></div>