Finalizing the Installation of Protegrity Appliance on the Instance

When you install the appliance, it generates multiple security identifiers such as, keys, certificates, secrets, passwords, and so on. These identifiers ensure that sensitive data is unique between two appliances in a network. When you receive a Protegrity appliance image, the identifiers are generated with certain values. If you use the security identifiers without changing their values, then security is compromised and the system might be vulnerable to attacks.

Rotating Appliance OS keys to finalize installation

Using the Rotate Appliance OS Keys tool, you can randomize the values of these security identifiers for an appliance. During the finalization process, you run the key rotation tool to secure your appliance.

If you do not complete the finalization process, then some features of the appliance may not be functional including the Web UI.

For example, if the OS keys are not rotated, then you might not be able to add appliances to a Trusted Appliances Cluster (TAC).

For information about the default passwords, refer to the section Launching the ESA instance on Amazon Web Services in the Release Notes 9.0.0.0 from the My.Protegrity.