Fips Toggle

Fips Toggle

This will activate or deactivate only the appliance's FIPS mode and will not activate or deactivate the Cloud Director server group's FIPS mode.

To activate an appliance's FIPS mode, the Cloud Director server's FIPS mode must be "On Pending Restart" or "On".

To deactivate an appliance's FIPS mode, the Cloud Director server's FIPS mode must be "Off Pending Restart" or "Off".

Request
URI
PUT
https://{api_host}/api/1.0.0/fips/{node-name}
COPY
Path Parameters
string
node-name
Required

Node name of the machine to update the appliance FIPS mode. This must be the appliance which is processing the request.

Request Body
FipsStatus of type(s) application/json
Required 
{
    "name": "string",
    "ip": "string",
    "applianceFips": "string",
    "cellFips": "string"
}
string
name
Optional

Node name of the appliance.

string
ip
Optional

eth0 IP of the appliance.

string
applianceFips
Optional

FIPS mode of the appliance's operating system. Possible values are:

  • ON
  • OFF
string
cellFips
Optional

FIPS mode of the appliance's Cloud Director server. Possible values are:

  • ON
  • ON_PENDING_RESTART
  • OFF
  • OFF_PENDING_RESTART
  • UNKNOWN
Authentication
This operation uses the following authentication methods.
Responses
202

Response Body is empty. Response includes Location header with URL to related task-id.

Operation doesn't return any data structure

Response Headers

string
Location

Task URL. Example: https://<vcd-appliance-ip>:5480/api/1.0.0/tasks/<task-id>


Code Samples
COPY
                    curl -X PUT -H 'Authorization: <value>' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{}' https://{api_host}/api/1.0.0/fips/{node-name}
Availability
Added in 35.2
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Fips Status Operations
GET
Get Fips Status
PUT
Fips Toggle