Viewing FIPS status for Access Appliance
The Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 standard is enabled for Veritas Operating system (VxOS) with the default factory settings. You can view the FIPS status of VxOS and NetBackup MSDP for a cluster node.
The Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 standard is enabled for Veritas Operating system (VxOS) with the default factory settings. You can view the FIPS status of VxOS for a cluster node and the FIPS status of NetBackup MSDP for each Veritas Data Deduplication server configured for the cluster.
To view the FIPS status:
- Log in to the Access web interface of the configured cluster by opening a supported browser and typing:
http://console-ip:14161
where console-ip is the management console IP address where the web interface is hosted.
- In the navigation pane, click Settings, and then click Security management.
On the FIPS tab, the FIPS status for VxOS and MSDP is displayed for each of the cluster nodes:
Enabled: The FIPS mode is enabled.
Disabled: The FIPS mode is disabled.
Unknown: The FIPS status cannot be retrieved because the node is stopped, shut down, or unreachable.