FIPS support in AX-3.8 is a licensed feature. In order for a station to run in FIPS mode, its NiagaraAX host platform must be licensed with the feature “fips140-2”. An example license line is below.

<feature name="fips140-2" expiration="2014-09-13" lib="entrust" parts="PROTO-FIPS"/>

Along with this host licensing requirement, FIPS software must be separately installed on any host platform that is already running AX-3.8. The installation method varies between remote (typically JACE) platforms and local (e.g. Supervisor) platforms.

Note for any type of AX-3.8 host, all software to implement the FIPS feature is contained in a single NiagaraAX distribution (.dist) file:

entrust-fips-generic.dist

Obtain this file through your sales channel to make available on your AX-3.8 Workbench PC. Once you have this file, see Installing the FIPS distribution.