What is the MACHINE_IDENTITY identity preference in the System Keychain for?

I am slowly succeeding in nursing my broken Mountain Lion Server back to life. A name change hosed it, probably because of some remaining stuff in the Keychains.
In my System Keychain, I have
OPENDIRECTORY_ROOT_CA_IDENTITY - points to a Self-signed root CA created during Server install
OPENDIRECTORY_INT_CA_IDENTITY - points to a Self-signed intermediate CA created during Server install
MACHINE_IDENTITY - Points to nothing (is broken).
What certificate is supposed to be mentioned in MACHINE_IDENTITY. Maybe someone with a working Mountain Lions Server can check for me?

That's the certificate chain, with the certificate used to uniquely identify the server.  With a self-signed root, there wouldn't be an intermediate certificate.  If you're not familiar with them, certificates are effectively cryptographic passwords, and they're either maintained and created locally (privately, self-signed) or are signed and therefore traceable back to another certificate.
With a correctly-functioning Open Directory, you'd create and load new self-signed certs.  In older releases, via Server Admin.  In newer releases, via Server.app.
Here's an old article (TA24487) and there's a whole lot more on certificates in this document; Advanced Server Administration.
I don't have a server running 10.8 handy to check.

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