Introduction
FIPS are standards and guidelines for federal computer systems developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) per the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) and approved by the Secretary of Commerce. These standards and guidelines are developed when there are no acceptable industry standards or solutions for a particular government requirement. Although FIPS are developed for use by the federal government, many private sectors voluntarily use these standards.
For more information, see https://www.nist.gov/standardsgov/compliance-faqs-federal-information-processing-standards-fips.
What Happens if FIPS is Enabled?
If FIPS is enabled on a device before enrollment, the HP Insights Windows Application (also called the Windows Agent) will fail to install.
If FIPS is enabled on a device after enrollment:
The Windows Agent and HP Insights Analytics Agent cannot be upgraded. However, it continues to send data from the currently installed version.
The HP Insights Analytics Agent stops sending data completely. As a result, reports that rely on data from the HP Insights Analytics Agent (such as CPU and memory reports) will display “Unknown”. However, the device will still appear in the report because data from the HP Insights Windows Application continues to be sent.
How to detect if FIPS is Enabled?
Under the registry key FipsAlgorithmPolicy, if the Enabled value is set to 1, then FIPS is enabled.
Registry key path: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\FIPSAlgorithmPolicy
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