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Important This documentation space contains information about the SaaS version of BMC Helix Discovery. If you are using the on-premises version of BMC Helix Discovery, see BMC Helix Discovery 25.2 (On-Premises).

Running in FIPS compliant mode

The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 140-3, is a computer security standard, developed by a U.S. Government and industry working group to validate the quality of cryptographic modules.

FIPS Publication 140-3 can be downloaded from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) website.


FIPS and older versions of OpenSSH

When you run in FIPS compliant mode, all components must be FIPS compliant. Consequently, if attempting to discover a target running an older version of OpenSSH Server (earlier than version 7.0 for example), the FIPS requirements might prevent an ssh connection being established, and discovery of that target will fail.

When installing a BMC Discovery Outpost the installation detects whether the Windows host is running in FIPS mode. For information on using Windows in FIPS mode, see this Microsoft knowledge base article.


 

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