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). See HSM Initialization.

>Setting HSM Policies - configuration settings to adjust some security and behavior parameters. See Set the HSM Policies.

>Creating a working space on the HSM for your application programs, called an application partition. See Creating an Application Partition on the HSM.

>Set partition policies as desired. See Setting SafeNet Luna PCIe HSM Partition Policies.

>Perform any optional configuration tasks. See Optional Configuration Tasks.

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