A newly created platform allows users to access a Linux endpoint. When users click to connect, nothing happens. Which piece of the platform is…

A CyberArk platform dictates how the Privileged Session Manager (PSM) connects to a target system. For a Linux endpoint, the standard connection protocol is SSH. The PSM-SSH Connection Component is the specific module that the PSM uses to initiate and manage this type of session. If this component is not associated with the platform, the PSM does not know how to handle the connection request from the PVWA. As a result, when a user clicks the "Connect" button, the action fails without initiating a session, which manifests as "nothing happens."

B. UnixPrompts.ini: This is a Central Policy Manager (CPM) configuration file that defines expected command prompts for password management operations on Unix/Linux systems, not for user session connections.

C. UnixProcess.ini: This is a Central Policy Manager (CPM) file that defines the sequence of commands for password management processes (e.g., verify, change, reconcile) on Unix/Linux systems.

D. PSM-RDP Connection Component: This component is used for establishing connections to Windows systems via the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), not for connecting to Linux endpoints which typically use SSH.

1. CyberArk Privileged Access Manager Documentation - Self-Hosted v12.6: "Platforms and service account platforms" > "Target Account Platforms" > "Connection Components".

Section: Connection Components

Content: This section explicitly states

"Connection Components are the PSM connectors that can be used to connect to remote machines." It lists PSM-SSH as the out-of-the-box component for connecting to Unix systems. This confirms that a connection component is required for the "Connect" button to function.

2. CyberArk Privileged Access Manager Documentation - Self-Hosted v12.6: "Privileged Session Manager" > "Configure PSM" > "Connection Components" > "PSM-SSH".

Section: Configure the PSM-SSH connection component

Content: The documentation details that "The PSM-SSH connection component enables PSM to securely connect to SSH-based systems...". This directly links the PSM-SSH component to connecting to Linux/Unix endpoints.

3. CyberArk Privileged Access Manager Documentation - Self-Hosted v12.6: "Central Policy Manager" > "CPM plugins" > "Developing CPM plugins".

Section: Process and Prompts files

Content: This section describes the function of the Process.ini and Prompts.ini files

clarifying their role in CPM's password management workflows

which is distinct from PSM's session initiation. This supports why options B and C are incorrect.