About the Configuration Guide

This document provides step-by-step instructions for configuring your SafeNet Luna 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.Planning Your Configuration

2.Configure the SafeNet Luna Network HSM for Your Network

3.HSM Initialization

4.Set the HSM Policies

5.Create Application Partitions

6.Create a Network Trust Link Between the Client and the Appliance

7.Enable the Client to Access a Partition

8.Configure Application Partitions

9.Set Partition Policies

Also review Optional Configuration Tasks for more configuration options.

Also review Confirm the HSM's Authenticity to check that your client is connected to a genuine SafeNet HSM.

This preface also includes the following information about this document:

>Customer Release Notes

>Audience

>Document conventions

>Support Contacts

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