Steps For Connecting To A Tems Appliance; Setting Up Tems Network Connections - Brocade Communications Systems Brocade BladeSystem 4/24 User Manual

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.

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
communications with clients. These IP addresses are typically assigned during the initial set up of
the TEMS appliance.
1. Log in to the Thales management program as admin and select the Network tab
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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.
TEMS Network Settings
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