2017-02-20 19:58:15 -0600 | asked a question | Why am I getting "error Unable to communicate with CMS" I am following this manual process of creating CA certificate following this link http://www.freeipa.org/page/PKI#Manualcertificaterequests but getting some error. I get error in this step: ipa cert-request --principal=HTTP/ The error I get is: error Unable to communicate with CMS Could you please help me what am I missing? This is the freeIPA version, I am using: VERSION: 4.4.0, API_VERSION: 2.213 Here is the output of ipactl status: root@docker-iop /]# ipactl status Directory Service: RUNNING krb5kdc Service: RUNNING kadmin Service: RUNNING named Service: RUNNING ipa_memcached Service: RUNNING httpd Service: RUNNING ipa-custodia Service: RUNNING pki-tomcatd Service: RUNNING ipa-otpd Service: RUNNING ipa-dnskeysyncd Service: RUNNING ipa: INFO: The ipactl command was successful |