|
Home > |
Configuration Guide > About the Configuration Guide
|
|---|
This document describes how to configure your HSM to get it ready to operate in your environment. Configuring an HSM consists of:
•Initializing the HSM - establishing ownership on the part of a role called the HSM Security Officer (SO) Initialize the HSM
–Initializing a Password-authenticated HSM Initializing a Password Authenticated HSM
–Initializing a PED-authenticated HSM Initializing a SafeNet PED-Authenticated PCI-E HSM
•Setting HSM Policies - configuration settings to adjust some security and behavior parameters
•Creating a working space on the HSM for your application programs, called an application partition, in either of two types
–Creating a legacy-style application partition (owned/managed by the same SO that owns the HSM)
- - Creating a legacy partition on a Password-authenticated HSM
- - Creating a legacy partition on a PED-authenticated HSM
–Creating a Per-Partition SO application partition (which has its own SO and is independent of the HSM SO)
- - Creating a PPSO partition on a Password-authenticated HSM
- - Creating a PPSO partition on a PED-authenticated HSM
•"Optional Configuration Tasks" on page 1
This preface also includes the following information about this document:
For information regarding the document status and revision history, see Document Information.