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What is the best practice to enable FIPS for SVM DR clusters?

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  • SVMDR
  • ONTAP 9

Answer

Vserver DR  require FIPS to be enabled on both source and destination site in order to be compatible.
 
1.Enabling FIPS on the cluster gives warning stating :
 
cluster1::*> security config modify -interface SSL -is-fips-enabled true
 
Warning: This command will enable FIPS compliance and can potentially cause
some non-compliant components to fail. MetroCluster and Vserver DR
require FIPS to be enabled on both sites in order to be compatible. An
SNMP users or SNMP traphosts that are non-compliant to FIPS will be
deleted automatically. An SNMPv1 user, SNMPv2c user or SNMPv3 user
(with none or MD5 as authentication protocol or none or DES as
encryption protocol or both) is non-compliant to FIPS. An SNMPv1
traphost or SNMPv3 traphost (configured with an SNMPv3 user
non-compliant to FIPS) is non-compliant to FIPS.
Do you want to continue? {y|n}:
 
2. If you are running ONTAP 9.8 or earlier, manual reboot of each node in the cluster is required to implements FIPS.
 
3. Beginning in ONTAP 9.9.1, node reboot is not required.
 
Note:

  • Before you reboot the system, you must confirm that all the SnapMirror relationships are quiesced.

  • When a SnapMirror relationship is quiesced, it remains quiesced across reboots and failovers.

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