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About the Configuration Guide

This document provides step-by-step instructions for configuring your SafeNet HSM hardware, before you begin using it with your application(s). The instructions are for a basic configuration. Additional configuration options are described in Optional Configuration Tasks.

To ensure a trouble-free configuration, perform the following steps in the order indicated:

1.[Step 1] Planning Your Configuration

2.[Step 2] Configure Your Network Settings

3.[Step 3] Initialize the HSM

4.[Step 4] Set the HSM Policies

5.[Step 5] Create Application Partitions

6.[Step 6] Set the Partition Policies for Legacy Partitions

7.[Step 7] Create a Trusted Link and Register Client and Appliance With Each Other

8.[Step 8] Configure PPSO Application Partitions

9.[Step 9] Set the Partition Policies for PPSO Partitions

Also review Optional Configuration Tasks for more configuration options.

Also review Confirm the HSM's Authenticity for information on confirming that clients are connected to a genuine SafeNet Luna HSM.

This preface also includes the following information about this document:

•Customer release notes

•Gemalto Rebranding

•Audience

•Document conventions

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