Introduction

The present document provides an integration guide for configuring Zen Load Balancer with Utimaco's SafeGuard CryptoServer Hardware Security Module (HSM).

Overview

Zen Load Balancer is an Open Source Load Balancer Appliance Project and provides a complete solution for load balancing to give high availability for TCP and UDP services and data line communications, targeted to turn a professional open source product in networking for distributed systems. Zen Load Balancer is a very highly productive and effective tool for the load balancing, we are going to show you how one can use it with HSM as per his/her requirements.

SafeGuard CryptoServer is a hardware security module developed by Utimaco Safeware AG, i.e. a physically protected specialized computer unit designed to perform sensitive cryptographic tasks and to securely manage and store cryptographic keys and data. It can be used as a universal, independent security component for heterogeneous computer systems.

Requirements

You should have prepared an installed Ubuntu or Microsoft Windows operating system. If you are using a PCI(e) card, you also have to compile and install the necessary driver for that card. We assume that you successfully installed the Zen Load Balancer on your system. If not, please follow Zen Load Balancer website to download and install the Zen Load Balancer software.

Software and hardware requirements