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Create the FIPS Environment Variable

If your environment meets both of the following criteria, creating the FIPs environment variable is required to register the Administrative UI for the first–time:

• The Policy Server to which you are registering is operating in FIPs–only mode.
• The Administrative UI is not installed on the Policy Server host system.

Follow these steps:

1. Do one of the following:
   • (Windows) Log into the Administrative UI host system as an administrative user.
   • (UNIX) Log into the Administrative UI host system as the user that installed the Administrative UI.
2. Set the following environment variable:

   CA_SM_PS_FIPS140=ONLY

   Note: For more information about setting environment variables, see your OS–specific documentation.

3. Verify that the CA_SM_PS_FIPS140 variable is recognized correctly by Windows or the UNIX shell that runs the Administrative UI.