Steps For Connecting To A Teka Appliance; Setting Up Teka Network Connections - Brocade Communications Systems StoreFabric SN6500B User Manual

Steps for connecting to a TEKA appliance

TEKA provides a web user interface for management of clients, keys, admins, and configuration
parameters. A Thales officer creates domains, groups, and managers (a type of administrator),
assigns groups to domains, and assigns managers to manage groups. Managers are responsible
for creating clients and passwords for the groups they manage.
The following configuration steps are performed from the TEKA web user interface and from the
Management application:
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Setting up TEKA network connections

Communicating to TEKA is enabled over an SSL connection. Two IP addresses are needed. One
IP address is used for the management interface, and a second IP address is used for
communication with clients. These IP addresses are typically assigned during the initial setup of
the TEKA appliance.
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Set up network connections to TEKA. Refer to
page 565.
Create a TEKA client. Refer to
Establish TEKA key vault credentials. Refer to
switch" on page 568.
Sign encryption node certificate signing requests. Refer to
CSR on TEKA" on page 569.
Import the signed requests onto the encryption nodes. Refer to
certificate into a switch" on page 569.
Steps for connecting to a TEKA appliance
"Setting up TEKA network connections"
"Creating a client on TEKA"
"Establishing TEKA key vault credentials on the
on page 567.
"Signing the encryption node KAC
"Importing a signed KAC
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