Welcome to the Federal Information Processing Standards Administration Guide. This guide describes how to administer Riverbed appliances so they are in compliance with Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS).

Throughout this guide, FIPS mode and FIPS compliance refer to use of the Riverbed Cryptographic Security Module (RCSM). The RCSM appears as the validated cryptographic module on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) vendor page instead of a specific Riverbed appliance. The NIST vendor page is available at this URL:

The Riverbed Cryptographic Security Module certificate itself is available at this URL:

https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/cryptographic-module-validation-program/certificate/4094

This guide is written for storage and network administrators who are familiar with administering and managing networks using common network protocols such as TCP, CIFS, HTTP, FTP, NFS, and so forth

This guide uses this standard set of typographical conventions:

You can find the most current version of all Riverbed documentation on the Support site at https://support.riverbed.com.

See the Knowledge Base for any known issues, how-to documents, system requirements, and common error messages. You can browse titles or search for keywords and strings. To access the Knowledge Base, log in to the Support site at https://support.riverbed.com.

Each software release includes release notes. The release notes list new features, known issues, and fixed problems. To obtain the most current version of the release notes, go to the Software and Documentation section of the Support site at https://support.riverbed.com.

Examine the release notes before you begin the installation and configuration process.

This section describes how to contact departments within Riverbed. For some products, you might need to provide your Support ID. You can find this on the Help page of your product’s Management Console.