Thanks Hubert HubertDennis.
That is what I also observed, when we recently renewed the SSL certificate for our CA Directory.
(SSL Cert renewed for LB VIP sitting in front of CA Dir).
Since all the applications already had the 'root + intermediate' Certificate in their key-stores from the older Cert, they were able to connect to our CA Dir even without updating the renewed Public Cert at their end.
I just wanted to be sure of this concept before we push the renewed certificate deployment in Prod.
Thanks for clarifying the same and do let me know in case I misunderstood you.
Regards,
Anurag