topic Re: FIPS mode - any issues after enabling? in ONTAP Discussions

FIPS mode - any issues after enabling?

thomasb82 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:38:49 GMT

Hi guys,

we have several clusters running 9.2 and I would like to enable FIPS mode for security reasons but wonder if that may cause any issues, for example with:

- SnapDrive, SnapManager, SnapCenter, Grafana, OnCommand Unified Manager etc.

Thanks for your feedback!

Re: FIPS mode - any issues after enabling?

mbeattie — Sun, 03 Sep 2017 12:37:44 GMT

Hi Thomas,

Yes i'm aware of one issue, after enabling FIPS mode, I believe it enables TLS 1.2 and prior versions are disabled. Therefore enabling FIPS can cause issues with scripts that use SSH and for Orchestration applications such as WFA due to the modification of the TLS version. There is a BURT raised for this issue (1091146).

/Matt

Re: FIPS mode - any issues after enabling?

ronaldmajor — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 13:36:13 GMT

I had issues with PuTTY, but upgrading to Putty 0.70 resolved it.

Invoke-NcSsh in PowerShell toolkit 4.4 also does not work. I don't know if the problem is in the toolkit or deeper in Windows.

Re: FIPS mode - any issues after enabling?

sinhaa — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 09:28:50 GMT

@ronaldmajor

@mbeattie

Invoke-NcSsh fails. But you can workyourself around it by using the below.

http://community.netapp.com/t5/OnCommand-Storage-Management-Software-Discussions/WFA-job-failure/m-p/138201/highlight/true#M25117

Let me know it you need help on this.

sinhaa