Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 9 User's Guide

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Security Protocol and Data Model (SPDM)

SPDM Protocol is used for establishing the security capabilities and authenticity between hardware components. SPDM allows message exchange between iDRAC and end devices such as storage controllers and NIC controllers. This includes hardware identity certificates.

You can enable SPDM via iDRAC Settings > Settings > SPDM Settings.

Table 1. SPDM Feature LicensingThis table explains the licenses required for different SPDM features:
Feature	License
Inventory- Detecting SPDM capable devices	Unlicensed
Collecting Hardware Identity of devices	Enterprise
Collecting firmware Identity of devices	Datacenter
Establishing Trust on device certificate using SCV	SCV License
Encrypted communication channel	SEKM License

When a device is SPDM capable, the SCV data collected contains SPDM Hardware identity certificates in addition to the existing fields. Firmware identity certificates are not included in the SCV certificate.

NOTE:You may notice NIC port number missing in the downloaded SPDM HW certificate file name.

NOTE:Export SPDM Certificate job failure can be seen in Job queue when you perform frequent reboots.