Cisco ISE 1.3 internal CA

Hello Everyone,
I'm deploying the 1.3 version of ISE(new), i have a distribute environment, with two machines for admin/log personas and two machines for psn's.
The problem that i need to solve is about the internal CA, i installed one ISE 1.1 one year ago and i used an external CA certificate based to do the authentication via eap and gui admin console with no problems, on this new instalation i'd like to use the internal CA, but the documentation is very poor and i don't found how i can initiate this setup using the internal CA.
I know that the CA is the admin primary machine, but i don't know what i need to do(using the gui) to generate the certs of the other machines and register the nodes using the certificates generated by this internal CA.
Can you help me with this?
Thanks a lot.

For the other ISE Nodes, create a self-signed cert on that node (this must be done prior to registering it to the Primary Admin Node or it fails) and export the cert.  Import the node Self-Signed Cert into the Trusted Certificates store on the Admin Node.  You can then register the node.
Do this for all node types.  The IPN is vastly different, and the ISE 1.2 Installation guide details those steps. (ISE 1.3 uses the ISE 1.2 IPN)
Please Rate Helpful posts and mark this question as answered if, in fact, this does answer your question.  Otherwise, feel free to post follow-up questions.
Charles Moreton

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