:_mod-docs-content-type: PROCEDURE
[id="resolving-configuration-validation-failures_{context}"]

= Resolving configuration validation failures

[role="_abstract"]
If the adoption fails with validation errors about placeholder values, replace the placeholder values with your environment's configuration values.

Example error:

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TASK [Validate all required variables are set] ****
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {
    "msg": "Required variable proteccio_certs_path contains placeholder value."
}
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.Procedure

. Edit your hardware security module configuration in the Zuul job vars or CI framework configuration file.

. Check the following key variables and replace all placeholder values with actual configuration values for your environment:
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cifmw_hsm_password: <your_actual_hsm_password>
cifmw_barbican_proteccio_partition: <VHSM1>
cifmw_barbican_proteccio_mkek_label: <your_mkek_label>
cifmw_barbican_proteccio_hmac_label: <your_hmac_label>
cifmw_hsm_proteccio_client_src: <https://your-server/path/to/Proteccio.iso>
cifmw_hsm_proteccio_conf_src: <https://your-server/path/to/proteccio.rc>
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. Verify that no placeholder values remain in your configuration.