Steps For Connecting To A Tems Appliance; Setting Up Tems Network Connections - Brocade Communications Systems Brocade 8/12c User Manual

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Steps for connecting to a TEMS appliance

Steps for connecting to a TEMS appliance

TEMS 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 TEMS web user interface and from the
Management application:
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These steps are described in more detail in the following sections:
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Setting up TEMS network connections

Communicating to TEMS 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 TEMS appliance.
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Set up network connections to TEMS.
Create a TEMS client.
Establish TEMS key vault credentials.
Sign encryption node certificate signing requests.
Import the signed requests onto the encryption nodes.
"Setting up TEMS network connections"
"Creating a client on TEMS"
"Establishing TEMS key vault credentials on the switch"
"Exporting the Fabric OS node self-signed KAC certificates"
"Converting the KAC certificate format"
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