1. Preface

1.1. About The Secure Networking Configuration Guide

The Vortex OpenSplice Secure Networking Configuration Guide is intended to be a complete reference for configuring and managing the Vortex OpenSplice Secure Networking Module.

1.2. Intended Audience

The Secure Networking Configuration Guide is the starting point for anyone who wishes to use and configure the Vortex OpenSplice Secure Networking Module for securing information transmission between DDS applications across multiple system nodes.

1.3. Organisation

The Guide is organised as follows:

The Overview provides an introduction to the secure networking module.

Secure Networking Configuration describes how to configure the Vortex OpenSplice Secure Networking Module.

The Tutorial gives a step-by-step example showing how to configure the Vortex OpenSplice Secure Networking Module.

The next section explains how Access Control is realized in Vortex OpenSplice.

Access Control Configuration describes how to configure the Vortex OpenSplice Mandatory Access Control Module.

Finally, the Troubleshooting section provides information to help with the diagnosis of common security-related error messages and configuration problems.

1.4. Conventions

The icons shown below are used in ADLINK product documentation to help readers to quickly identify information relevant to their specific use of Vortex OpenSplice.

Icon	Meaning
	Item of special significance or where caution needs to be taken.
	Item contains helpful hint or special information.
	Information applies to Windows (e.g. XP, 2003, Windows 7) only.
	Information applies to Unix-based systems (e.g. Solaris) only.
	Information applies to Linux-based systems (e.g. Ubuntu) only.
	C language specific.
	C++ language specific.
	C# language specific.
	Java language specific.