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FrequentlyA
AskedQuestio
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013

1 WhatisiincludedinttheRSAAuth
1.
henticationM
Manager8.1
1release?
RSA Authentiication Manaager 8.1 delivvers all of th
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he features and
a functionality of AM8
8 now on a hardware
a
appliance.
AM
M8 was originally offered only as a viirtual applian
nce yet somee organization
ns require orr prefer a
h
hardware
app
pliance due to perceived
d security concerns, lack of familiaritty with VMw
ware, or sepaaration of
andsecurity responsibilities.RSAisco
v
virtualization
ommittedtod
deliveringacchoiceofauth
henticators(h
hardware,
s
software,
ondemand, and
d RiskBased Authenticatiion) as well as
a a choice in deploymen
nt methods (virtual
(
or
h
hardwareapp
pliance).
2 WhenisR
2.
RSAAuthentticationMan
nager8.1avvailable?
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RSAAuthentic
cationManagger8.1isbein
ngtargetedfo
orgenerallyavailableonD
December10,2013.
3 Willmyeexistinginsttallbasecustomerneedtopurchaseenewapplia
3.
ances?
Notnecessarily.Forexistin
N
ngAppliance3.0boxes(pu
urchasedafteerApril2010aapproximatelly)aninplaceeupgrade
issavailableso
ocustomersccanmigratettheiralready deployedappliancestoth
heAM8.1reelease.Excepttionsmay
a
applyforearl
lierAppliance
e3.0boxesp
purchasedbeeforeMay2010.Howeverr,customers runningtheA
Appliance
2
2.0(runningt
the6.xsoftwaare)willneed
dtopurchasenewerappliaancestoruntthe8.xsoftw
wareastheseboxesare
n
nowfunctiona
allyobsoleteandwillnotssupportthen
newrelease.
4 Whatistthepriceofttheappliancce?
4.
TTheRSAAuth
henticationM
Manager8.1aappliancepriccesarethesameastheA
Appliance3.0
0pricing.See theprice
listfordetails.
5 Whatareethehardwarespecifica
5.
ations?
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RSAAuthentic
cationManagger8.1Appliaance130

1URaackMount
FourC
CoreIntelXeo
onX3430;2.4
4GHz,8MBC
Cache
8GBo
ofRAM
1SATTADrive500
0GB
DVDD
Drive

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cationManagger8.1Appliaance250

2URaackMount
FourC
CoreIntelXeo
onE5504,4M
MBCache,2.0
00GHz
16GB
BofRAM
23.5SAS15KDrive
es450GBeachRAID1
Drive
DVDD

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6 Are therre difference

6.
es between the Applia
ance 3.0 (ru
unning the 7.1 softwarre) and thee AM 8.1
appliancce?
TThe main diffference is th
he additional memory avaailable in thee AM 8.1 appliances. Theere is 8 GB in
i the 1U
a
applianceand
d16GBinthe
e2Uappliance.
7 CanexisttingApplian
7.
nce3.0custo
omers(runningthe7.1ssoftware)fieeldupgradethememoryyintheir
boxestothoseoftheAM8.1applliance?
EExisting appliiances are NOT
N
field upggradable to the
t new meemory specifiications in th
he AM 8.1 appliance.
a
O
Openingupth
heboxmayvoidthewarraantyandthisoperationisn
notsupportedbyRSA.
8 Istheadd
8.
ditionalmem
morynecesssarytorunttheAM8.1so
oftwareonttheappliancce?
No,itwasaddedtosuppo
N
ortthefutureeneedsofth
heappliance butcustomermigratingfrromtheAppliance3.0
(runningtheA
AM7.1software)willnotrrequiretheadditionalmem
morytorunttheserver.
9 CanacusstomermigrratedirectlyyfrombothA
9.
AM6.xandA
AM7.xtoAM
M8.1?
YYes.Similarto
oAM8migrattions,thereaaremigration
npathsforcu
ustomersdireectlyfrom6.xxand7.xsofttwareand
A
Appliance
2.0
0 and 3.0 harrdware. Pleasse note, that the Appliancce 2.0 and older Appliance 3.0 system
mswill not
s
supporttheA
AM8.xsoftwaare,socustom
merswillneed
dtopurchaseethemorerecentapplianccestorunAM
M8.1.
1 Cancusto
10.
omersnowh
haveamixeddeploymen
ntwithvirtu
ualandhard
dwareapplia
ances?
YYes, we supp
port mixed hardware
h
and
d virtual envvironments (ee.g. a physiccal primary instance and 2 virtual
r
replicas).The
licensinghassnotchanged
d,soaBaseeeditionlicenssewillsupporrt1primaryiinstanceand 1replica;
a
anEnterprise
editionlicen
nsewillsuppo
ort1primaryyinstanceand
dupto15reeplicas.Anycombinations ofvirtual
a
andphysicalh
hardwareapp
pliancesaren
nowsupporteed.
1 Howwilllmycustome
11.
ersknowwh
hichbox(es)theyhave?
T
There
are two ways.
w
One is to
o visually look at the appliance itself. Both the front bezel and backplan
ne show distinc
ctive
d
differences
as noted
n
below.

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T other way is
The
s to run the folllowing at the CLI command lin
ne:
/
/opt/dell/srvadm
min/oma/bin/om
mreport system
m summary | grrep Chassis Mo
odel

1 Arethea
12.
appliancesa
availablewitthAdvanceH
HardwareReeplacement(AHR)?
YYes,ashasbeecomestandaard,theAppliance8.1ship
psstandardw
with3yearso
ofAdvanceH
HardwareRep
placement
(AHR)includeedwiththepu
urchasepriceoftheappliaanceandexteendedsupporrtisavailableforanadditionalcost.
S
Seetheprice
listfordetailss.

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