2 Prerequisites

For Session Monitor to work in the FIPS mode, enable the FIPS mode in both Oracle Linux as well as MySQL. You can enable the FIPS mode on Session Monitor using the Operating System and MySQL versions:

  • Session Monitor Release 5.2 p3 or later releases (Upgrade /Fresh install both possible)
  • Oracle Linux 8.10
  • "BaseOS Latest", "AppStream Latest" and "Security Validation (Update 8)" yum repositories enabled
  • MySQL 8.0.39 / 8.0.40 / 8.0.41
  • MySQL Connector Version 8.0.33
The versions of Oracle Linux that were FIPS 140-2 validated was version 8.4. It is recommend that you use the latest version of Oracle Linux 8.x and MySQL 8.0.x to maintain security. Also, you cannot use FIPS 140-2 cryptographic modules on Oracle Linux 8 systems that are running an update earlier than Oracle Linux 8.4.

Note:

Session Monitor only supports FIPS 140-2 based on the Linux versions listed above.
Also, RHEL (or any other flavor of Linux outside of Oracle Linux) based installation is out of scope of FIPS 140-2.