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Reactivate virtual smart card

Use case scenario

An operator wants to reactivate a virtual smart card for a user.

This article describes how an operator reactivates a virtual smart card for a user in Smart ID Identity Manager. The Reactivate virtual smart card use case is called automatically if a user gets reactivated or locked. See, for example, Reactivate user. But it can be also used to just reactivate the virtual smart card.

This use case is disabled by default. 

Prerequisites

Prerequisites
  • The virtual smart card is in state "inactive"
Enable the Reactivate virtual smart card use case
  1. Log in to Identity Manager Admin with your admin user.
  2. Go to Home > Cards.
  3. Select and edit Virtual smart card.
  4. Select the Active tab.
  5. In Additional Commands, click New (the pen symbol) to add a row.
  6. In Additional Commands, select Reactivate virtual smart card to add it to the Process list.
  7. Click Save.

Step-by-step instruction for the operator

Log in to Identity Manager Operator
  1. Log in to Identity Manager Operator with your user account.
Reactivate virtual smart card
  1. In the Quick search drop-down list, select Virtual smart card
  2. Select Virtual smart card from the drop-down list and search for and select an inactive virtual smart card.
  3. Click Reactivate virtual smart card under "What do you want to do".
  4. Click Next to reactivate the virtual smart card.

Use case details

Overview and technical details
Use case descriptionAs an operator I want to reactivate an inactive virtual smart card
Outcome
  • End state for virtual smart card = "active"
  • End state for the certificates in Identity Manager = "on hold"
  • End state for the certificates in CA = "valid"
Symbolic name

VirtualSmartCardProcReactivate

Process name

Reactivate virtual smart card

Component

Identity Manager Operator

Required virtual smart card state

Inactive

Process start

On the virtual smart card object > Reactivate virtual smart card

Options

There are no options for this use case.

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