Tape Drive Enrollment Process Overview

Enrolling tape drives requires certain steps to be completed by the installer, while other steps must be completed by the customer.

During installation when enrolling the tape drives, the customer can choose if they want to:

• Switch encryption on and off per tape drive.
• Use Tokens to transfer keys from the Token Bay (Version 1.x).
• Permanently encrypt or not.

Steps to enroll a tape drive:

1. Pre-requisite: Install and test tape drives within the tape library and create a private network to connect and configure the tape drives before adding the encryption capability.
2. Customer Task: Create agent IDs and passphrases in the KMAs.
3. Installer Task: Request the enablement keys from the website.
4. Installer Task: Download the enablement Keys to the tape drives (required for T-series tape drives only).
5. Installer Task: Activate the tape drives (agents).
6. Customer Task: Enroll the agents.
7. Customer Task: Assign the agents to a Key Group.

Required Tools for Tape Drive Enrollment

Tape drive enrollment requires specific tools. Verify you have these tools prior to enrolling the drives.

• Straight Ethernet cable, 10 ft (PN: 24100216) if connecting to an Ethernet switch.
• Cross-over Ethernet cable, 10 ft (PN: 24100163) if connecting directly to the drives.
• Service laptop (or personal computer)
• Oracle Virtual Operator Panel (VOP) -

  For VOP, if this is the initial configuration, use a secure point-to-point connection and the default IP address 10.0.0.1. Because all tape drives use the same default IP address, connecting them all to the same switch for the initial configuration will cause problems; unless you power the drives on and configure them one-by-one; including a new IP address.