You need to setup the Fabric CA server to host one or more Certification Authorities (Fabric CA) for your Fabric Network (based on the MSPs What is the difference between MSP and Fabric CA?) using the following Command Line Options:
http://hyperledger-fabric-ca.readthedocs.io/en/latest/servercli.html
The fabric-ca-client is just a nice wrapper to the ugly REST calls. It is just the component that provides an interface to the server component. However, you can skip using the fabric-ca-client and use the REST API of the Fabric Server and do all the functionalities mentioned above.
You can explore the functionalities of the Fabric CA client using either one of the following:
- REST API
- http://hyperledger-fabric-ca.readthedocs.io/en/latest/clientcli.html
- Fabric CA SDK Clients (Node, Java, etc) for the language you are developing your app in.
FYI, Fabric CA provides features such as:
- Registration of identities with roles like peer or connects to an existing LDAP as the user registry to fetch identities of the mentioned roles
- Issuance of Enrollment Certificates for signing and identifying
- Issuance of Transaction Certificates
- Providing both anonymity and unlinkability when transacting on a Hyperledger Fabric blockchain
- Certificate renewal and revocation