User's Manual

Introduction 15
The VCM CLI prompt indicates if the domain is in FIPS mode by displaying the following prompt:
FIPS->
The following features are disabled or restricted when the domain is in FIPS mode:
• FTP and TFTP
• TACACS+ authentication
• RADIUS authentication
• Automated deployment
• Configurable user roles
• Administrator password recovery
• USB firmware updates
• SNMPv1 and SNMPv2
• MD5 authentication and DES encryption for SNMPv3
• Remote logging, except when using stunnel for encryption
• Short passwords
• Weak passwords
By default, the password strength is set to strong and the minimum password length must be 8 or more
characters. VCM uses SCP and SFTP protocols instead of FTP and TFTP.
SFTP must be used when the domain is in FIPS mode. Use SFTP when transferring data with the following
commands:
• save configbackup
• restore configbackup
• load ldap-certificate
• load profile
• save profile
• load ssh
• load ssl-certificate
• save ssl-csr
• save supportinfo
Command line syntax
CLI input is case-insensitive, except when otherwise noted. The general CLI syntax format is as follows:
<subcommand> <managed element> <parameters> [<options>] [<properties>]
Item Description
subcommand
Operation performed on a managed element
managed element
Target management entity
parameters
Command extensions for a particular management operation