C-View Professional is a certificate lifecycle management tool that handles the issuance, renewal, and revocation of digital certificates from multiple sources. It supports Microsoft AD CS, certificate files (CER/PFX/P12), SSL certificates across platforms, and local machine certificate stores. Key capabilities include: - Automatic discovery of the MS-CA hierarchy and loading of CA certificates - Network scanning for SSL certificates - Certificate issuance by template or CSR, on behalf of a user, or to a smart card - Renewal of certificates with all original parameters preserved - Approval or denial of pending certificate requests - Automatic renewal of MS-CA certificates - Revocation of certificates - SHA1 to SHA2 migration tooling - Import of certificates from CER/PFX/P12 files Monitoring and alerting features include: - Scheduled certificate expiration email alerts and event log entries - PKI health monitoring with graphical presentation - PKI alerts for CRL failures and CA certificate issues - Online certificate status queries - Display of PKI policy exceptions - Security policy compliance summary and certificate category reporting - CSV report generation The product targets enterprises managing large volumes of digital certificates, aiming to reduce operational overhead, prevent service outages from expired certificates, and maintain PKI health visibility.