Infineon Security Platform Solution

Using the Security Platform Wizards

The Security Platform Solution uses the Settings Tool as a central access point for administrating the Infineon Security Platform. Initial and subsequent configuration tasks are facilitated by wizards.

Wizard Pages

Welcome Page

This is the wizard's first page. It explains the wizard's purpose to you.
This page is only displayed if the full wizard functionality is needed. It is not displayed if a wizard is started from the Settings Tool to perform a defined administration task.

Interior Wizard Pages

These pages prompt you for user input to collect information required to perform the wizard's task.

Confirmation Page

The Confirmation page summarizes all relevant information and actions to be done.

Until now, no changes have been made. The listed actions will only be performed, if you click Next.

Completion Page

This is the wizard's last page. It informs you about the wizard's completion (success or failure) and lists all actions that have been completed.  

If the overall configuration process requires to start another wizard before Security Platform Features can be used, then you can select to automatically continue with the next wizard.
Example: After having initialized or restored your Security Platform (Platform Initialization Wizard), you may want to continue with the initialization or restoration of users (User Initialization Wizard).

On the completion page of Security Platform Initialization Wizard you can decide whether you want to run automatic backup to update the System Backup Archive with significant changes. This option is only available if the system policy Enforce immediate System Backup is not configured.

Wizard Progress Indication

The Wizard Progress Indication in the upper right wizard page corner visualizes required wizard steps and highlights the current step. The Wizard Progress Indication is supported by all Wizards which have multiple configuration pages and steps. It informs you about the steps to be done to perform a certain task:

• Each step is represented by a little rectangle.
• The rectangle representing the current step is highlighted.
• Move your mouse pointer over the rectangles to view information on the individual steps.

Wizard behavior in case of failure

In case of failure the intended changes to the Security Platform are not performed. Instead of that an error message is displayed.

General preconditions to run wizards

Precondition	Explanation
Windows administrative rights and Windows policies	Security Platform Initialization Wizard/Security Platform Quick Initialization Wizard (if platform is not yet initialized): The current user must have Windows administrative rights (i.e., the current user must be a member of the administrators group). On a system with a disabled Trusted Platform Module, the current user must be allowed to restart the computer.
Security Platform policies	Access to Security Platform wizards can be restricted by the policies Allow Platform Enrollment and Allow User Enrollment.
User Status	Password Reset Wizard, PKCS #12 Import Wizard: The current user must be an initialized Security Platform User.
Security Platform & Trusted Platform Module state	Security Platform Initialization Wizard/Security Platform Quick Initialization Wizard (if platform is not yet initialized): Possible sources of error are: The ownership of the Infineon Security Platform changed after the setup of the Security Platform. The Trusted Platform Module has an owner, but the Infineon Security Platform is not yet set up. All wizards: A connection to the Trusted Platform Module is required. Possible sources of error are: Disabled or temporarily disabled Trusted Platform Module A missing Trusted Platform Module Problems with the driver software Detailed information on the Infineon Security Platform status is available here.
Common configuration consistency	All wizards: The Security Platform configuration has to be in a consistent state. Examples of possible sources of error are: Invalid Backup Archive configuration settings. Emergency Recovery Token or Password Reset Token cannot be created.

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