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BigFix® Remote Control V9.1.4 Installation Guide
By using BigFix® Remote Control you can remotely support and control thousands of PCs and servers, on an enterprise scale, from a central location or directly, in peer to peer mode.
Federal information processing standard (FIPS 140-2) compliance in BigFix® Remote Control
Enabling FIPS compliance on the gateway
You can enable FIPS compliance on the gateway component by editing the gateway configuration file that is created when you install gateway support.

Remote Control V9.1.4
- Release Notes V9.1.4 Fixpack 1
- BigFix® Remote Control V9.1.4 Installation Guide
  By using BigFix® Remote Control you can remotely support and control thousands of PCs and servers, on an enterprise scale, from a central location or directly, in peer to peer mode.
  - Audience
  - Versions
  - Terms used in this guide
  - Overview of the BigFix® Remote Control system
  - Get started
    Now that you understand the terms and components available in BigFix® Remote Control, you can identify which components you need to install:
  - Install the BigFix® Remote Control components
    The BigFix® Remote Control components can be installed in two ways. If you have access to the BigFix console, use a deployment fixlet to install the components.
  - Utility for extracting the component installation files
    BigFix® Remote Control provides a utility that you can use to extract the installation files that are required for each component.
  - Enable secure target registration
    To prevent unauthorized targets from registering with the BigFix® Remote Control server, you can enable the secure registration feature and use tokens to authenticate the target.
  - Install the driver for smart card authentication
    The BigFix® Remote Control Target provides an installation option to install a virtual smart card reader driver. You can also install the driver by running a fixlet in the BigFix console.
  - Manage the component services
    After you install the BigFix® Remote Control components, if you change their configuration, you can stop, start, or restart the component services.
  - Enabling email
  - Configure LDAP
  - Federal information processing standard (FIPS 140-2) compliance in BigFix® Remote Control
    - Enable FIPS compliance on the server
    - Enabling FIPS compliance on the controller
      The BigFix® Remote Control controller is a Java™ application that requires a FIPS certified cryptographic provider when FIPS compliance is enabled. Only the IBM® Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is supported in FIPS-compliant mode.
    - Enable FIPS compliance on the target
    - Enabling FIPS compliance on the gateway
      You can enable FIPS compliance on the gateway component by editing the gateway configuration file that is created when you install gateway support.
    - Enabling FIPS compliance on the broker
      You can enable FIPS compliance on the broker component by editing the broker configuration file that is created when you install broker support.
  - NIST SP800-131A compliance in BigFix® Remote Control
    BigFix® Remote Control version 9.1.0 components can be configured for NIST SP800-131A compliance.
  - Verifying the server installation
  - Recover from installation errors
  - Uninstall the components
  - Upgrade from previous versions
  - Maintaining the target installation
  - Properties that can be set in the target configuration
    You can configure target properties either during or after installation. The operating system on the target system determines which properties can be configured. The target properties determine the actions that can be carried out during a peer-to-peer session. If you set a server URL and set the Managed property to Yes, the actions are determined by the policies that are set on the Remote Control server.
- BigFix® Remote Control V9.1.4 Administrators Guide
  This guide is for users who want to administer BigFix® Remote Control.
- BigFix® Remote Control V9.1.4 Console Users Guide
- BigFix® Remote Control V9.1.4 Controller Users Guide
- BigFix® Remote Control V9.1.4 Target Users Guide
- BigFix® Remote Control V9.1.4 On-demand Target Guide
  Use BigFix® Remote Control to start remote control sessions over the internet with targets that do not have the target software installed.
- Remote Control V9.1.4 Readme file

Enabling FIPS compliance on the gateway

You can enable FIPS compliance on the gateway component by editing the gateway configuration file that is created when you install gateway support.

About this task

The trc_gateway.properties file is in the following directory.

Windows™ systems: \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\IBM\Tivoli\Remote Control\Gateway
or \ProgramData\IBM\Tivoli\Remote Control\Gateway.
Linux™ systems: /etc

To enable FIPS compliance, complete the following steps.

Procedure

Edit the trc_gateway.properties file.
Set FIPSCompliance = Yes.
Save the file.
Restart the gateway service.
For more information about restarting the gateway service, see Manage the component services. Follow the steps in the section that is relevant to your operating system.