Enabling FIPS cryptography on Web Reports
After installed, you can set up your Web Reports server to encrypt using FIPS cryptography.
To enable FIPS encryption, follow these steps:
- From the BigFix Management Domain, open the Computer Management folder and click the Computers node.
- Select the computer where the Web Reports server is running.
- From the right-click context menu, select Edit Computer Settings.
- From the Edit Settings dialog, click Add.
- In the Add Custom Setting dialog, enter the setting name as
_BESClient_Cryptography_FipsMode
The values for this setting are:
- required
- Causes the client to encrypt using FIPS cryptography.
- none
- FIPS cryptography is not used.
- Click OK to accept the value and OK again to complete the setting. You must enter your private key password to deploy the setting action.