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# Platform Certificate Verification Tool (PCVT):

PCVT allows you to verify that the hardware and platform firmware configuration of your Hewlett Packard Enterprise server has not been modified since leaving the factory.
PCVT enables a user to verify the assertions encoded in the Platform Certificate issued by HPE for a specific system
are still valid at the time of check.

PCVT performs the following operations:
Specifically, PCVT performs the following operations:

1) PCVT verifies the current hardware and relevant firmware configuration of the server
against the information encoded in the Platform Certificate that HPE issued at its factory.
1) PCVT checks whether the current hardware and relevant firmware configuration of the server
is the same as the one encoded in the Platform Certificate that HPE issued at the factory.
The Platform Certificate is an X.509 Attribute Certificate signed by HPE.

2) PCVT cryptographically verifies the validity of the HPE-issued system certificates:
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## PCVT documentation
For more information on PCVT and its operation, please refer to the User Guide document that accompanies the ISO image for each release.

## PCVT usage:
## PCVT usage
Follow the steps in this section to run PCVT using a bootable ISO:

1. Download the PCVT bootable ISO from the 'Releases' section of this GitHub repository.
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localhost login: root (automatic login)
Have a lot of fun ...
Setting up PCVT environment .. .
iLO requires authentication - please provide iLO account credentials:
Username:
Password:

Reading Platform Certificate
Reading System IAK Certificate
Reading System IDevID Certificate
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