ISE 1.3 Internal CA

Hi,
I am looking for some assistance on the new local CA. My client provisions and launches the Cisco Network Setup Assistant but once I hit start, the client fails. Tail logs off the ISE node produce the following..
2015-01-09 16:00:00,155 WARN [portal-http-service13][] com.cisco.cpm.scep.ScepCertRequestProcessor -:::::- No live PKI server found for certificate request [CN=bm
eagh01]
2015-01-09 16:00:00,166 ERROR [portal-http-service13][] com.cisco.cpm.scep.ScepCertRequestProcessor -:::::- No live PKI server found for certificate request [CN=bm
eagh01]
A show application status ise confirms that CA is enabled and running.
Thoughts ?

Hi Ben,
I hit the same issue and was able to fix it by replacing the Root CA for BYOD. Perhaps this is a valid work around for this bug. To be honest: I changed the hostname and domain-name several weeks ago because my ISE is a NFR kit. So after all it looks very logically to me to replace the Cisco ISE Root CA certificates :)
Please let us know if it works for you as well.

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A few questions here:
1. Is this for wired or wireless BYOD
2. What version of ISE and Controller / Switch are you running
3. Post a screen shot of the Client Provisioning ACL
4. Post a screenshot of your AAA policies in ISE
The wildcard cert should not be OK as that will only be used for the HTTPs portion of the request while the EAP session would be based on the ISE CA cert.
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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.
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