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After setting up your initial IBM® Sametime® environment, you may want to make additional changes to safeguard information at your site, including limiting user access to certain features, using encryption, and modifying default security settings.
Setting up compliance for FIPS 140-2
IBM® Sametime® supports the U.S. government-defined security requirements for cryptographic modules known as FIPS 140-2 (Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2). If your Sametime deployment must maintain FIPS 140-compliance for all data exchanged between clients and Sametime Community Servers, you must install the FIPS Server on the Sametime Proxy Server to accept data on behalf of Sametime Community Servers.
Installing the FIPS administration portlet
To administer the FIPS Server from the Sametime® System Console, you must install the FIPS administration portlet before you install the FIPS Server.

Installing the FIPS administration portlet

To administer the FIPS Server from the Sametime® System Console, you must install the FIPS administration portlet before you install the FIPS Server.

Procedure

Install the FIPS administration portlet into the Sametime System Console of the Integrated Solutions Console. Go to WebSphere\STSCServerCell\optionalConsoleApps\fips.proxyadmin and install the portlet using the instructions in the readme.txt.

Results

Note: After you install the FIPS server on the Sametime Proxy server, you can make configuration changes. Always restart the Sametime Proxy Server if you make any configuration changes using the administration portlet. Currently, you cannot administer the per-node configuration or vertical clustering of FIPS on the Sametime System Console. The administrative portlet only administers and therefore shows registered cell deployments or horizontal cluster deployments. It will not show individual primary or secondary nodes of the cluster.