Install FIPS to local host for station usage

Do the following to make the FIPS distribution available to a station running on your local host (PC).

Prerequisite: Get the FIPS distribution file. See FIPS licensing and software distribution.

Installing FIPS to local host for station usage

Extract the files in the entrust-fips-generic.dist directly into your niagaraHome/ folder. This should create a new “fips” subfolder.

A NiagaraAX .dist file is like a zip archive file, where if necessary you can change the file extension from .dist to .zip in order to extract its files using Windows Explorer or a utility like “WinZip”. Note that some archive utilities like “7-Zip” recognize .dist files as archives, such that you can extract files directly.
If a station is running on your local host, restart it.

Any station started after the reboot will be running in FIPS mode. See About a station in FIPS mode.

As for any AX-3.8 station, if browser client access is needed using “Web Workbench” (wbApplet), any browser client PC needs Java “Unlimited Strength Policy Files” installed for this to work. For related details, see “Additional client-side Java installation steps” in the NiagaraAX 2013 Security Updates document.