Preface

The Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 Board Version 2.0 Installation and User's Guide lists the features, protocols, and interfaces of the Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 board and describes how to install, configure, and manage the board in your system.

This user's guide assumes that you are a network administrator with experience configuring one or more of the following: Solaris Operating System, Sun platforms with PCI I/O cards, Sun ONE and Apache Web Servers, IPsec, SunVTS trademark software, and certification authority acquisitions.

How This Book Is Organized

This book is organized as follows:

Chapter 1 lists the product features, protocols, and interfaces of the Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 board, and describes the hardware and software requirements.

Chapter 2 describes how to install and remove the Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 hardware and software.

Chapter 3 defines the Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 tunable driver parameters, and describes how to configure them with the ndd utility and the vca.conf file. This chapter also describes how to enable autonegotiation or forced mode for link parameters at the OpenBoot PROM interface and how to configure the network hosts file.

Chapter 4 describes how to configure the Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 board and manage keystores with the vcaadm and vcadiag utilities.

Chapter 5 describes how different configurations of the board work with the PKCS#11 interface.

Chapter 6 explains how to configure the Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 board for use with Sun ONE Web Servers.

Chapter 7 explains how to configure the Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 board for use with Apache Web Servers.

Chapter 8 describes how to test the Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 board with the vcaadm and vcadiag utilities and the on board FCode self-test. This chapter also provides troubleshooting techniques with OpenBoot PROM commands.

Appendix A lists the specifications for the Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 board.

Appendix B provides software notices and licenses from other software organizations that govern the use of third-party software used with the Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 board.

Appendix C provides a description of the Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 commands and lists the online manual pages for each command.

Appendix D describes how to zeroize the Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 board to the factory state which is the Failsafe mode for the board.

Appendix E lists the PKCS#11 mechanisms supported by the Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 board.

Using UNIX Commands

This document does not contain information on basic UNIX® commands and procedures such as shutting down the system, booting the system, and configuring devices.

See one or more of the following for this information:

Solaris Hardware Platform Guide

Online documentation for the Solaris Operating System, available at: http://docs.sun.com

Other software documentation that you received with your system

Shell Prompts

Shell	Prompt
C shell	machine-name`%`
C shell superuser	machine-name`#`
Bourne shell and Korn shell	`$`
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser	`#`

Typographic Conventions

Typeface	Meaning	Examples
`AaBbCc123`	The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output	Edit your `.login` file. Use `ls -a` to list all files. `% You have mail`.
`AaBbCc123`	What you type, when contrasted with on-screen computer output	`%` `su` `Password:`
AaBbCc123	Book titles, new words or terms, words to be emphasized Command-line variable; replace with a real name or value	Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. These are called class options. You must be superuser to do this. To delete a file, type `rm` filename.

Typeface

Meaning

Examples

AaBbCc123

The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output

Edit your .login file.

Use ls -a to list all files.

% You have mail.

AaBbCc123

What you type, when contrasted with on-screen computer output

% su

Password:

AaBbCc123

Book titles, new words or terms, words to be emphasized

Command-line variable; replace with a real name or value

Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide.

These are called class options.

You must be superuser to do this.

To delete a file, type rm filename.

Accessing Sun Documentation Online

You can view, print, or purchase a broad selection of Sun documentation, including localized versions, at:

http://www.sun.com/documentation

Contacting Sun Technical Support

If you have technical questions about this product that are not answered in this document, go to:

http://www.sun.com/service/contacting

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http://www.sun.com/hwdocs/feedback

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