Cisco Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.2 Installation Guide

All Prime Infrastructure users access the appliance from a client web browser. Web client requirements are:

Hardware—A Mac or Windows laptop or desktop compatible with one of the following tested and supported browsers:

Google Chrome 34, 35, 36 or later 

Microsoft Internet Explorer 10, or 11 (No plug-ins are required.)

Mozilla Firefox ESR 17, 24

Mozilla Firefox 30 or later

Display resolution—We recommend that you set the screen resolution to 1280 x 800 or higher. 

Adobe Flash Player—You must install Adobe Flash Player on the client machine for Prime Infrastructure features to work 
properly. We recommend that you download and install the latest version of the Adobe Flash Player from the 

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The Prime Infrastructure virtual appliance offers a “FIPS Mode” installation option. This option is intended for customers who 
require the products they use to be compliant with FIPS-140-2 standards. 

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) are United States government computer security standards

. 

The FIPS-140-2

 

series specify requirements for cryptography modules. For a more complete description, see 

To verify whether the Prime Infrastructure system is operating in FIPS mode, use the system CLI command show security-status. 
For more information, see

 in the

 Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.2 Administrator Guide

When deciding whether to install in FIPS Mode, be aware that: 

Installing Prime Infrastructure in FIPS Mode disables use of certain capabilities in order to comply with the cryptographic 
security requirements of FIPS-140-2. For more details, see the

in the 

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Only the wireless management solution functionality in Prime Infrastructure is certified for FIPS compliance. You should 
not install in FIPS Mode if you use Prime Infrastructure to manage wired, or combinations of both wired and wireless, 
devices.

FIPS Mode is an installation option; you cannot disable it after installation. To use Prime Infrastructure in non-FIPS Mode, 
you must re-install the product.

If you enable FIPS mode, TFTP and FTP are disabled by default. SFTP is used for upload and download operations. 

The Plug and Play features are not available if you enable FIPS mode.

If you enable FIPS mode, you cannot enable root, and access to the root-mode CLI is restricted.

If you install Prime Infrastructure 2.2 in FIPS Mode, you cannot restore to it a backup made on a non-FIPS enabled server. 
Conversely, you cannot restore a FIPS-enabled backup to a non-FIPS enabled Prime Infrastructure server. You can restore 
Prime Infrastructure versions prior to 2.2 on a non-FIPS enabled server only.