Pre-installation General Considerations

Before product installation, it is important that each of the following items are considered:

• Networking: Virtual and physical interfaces, bridged and routed

• User roles: Operator and administrator and others, view or modify or delete

• Password rules: length and character requirements, other characteristics

• Cryptographic algorithms: allowed or mandated, usage guidelines

• Patch or update process security: limitations, roles allowed to execute procedures

This is not an exhaustive list. The more things that can be planned ahead of time, the better.