Brocade Fabric OS Encryption Administrator's Guide v6.3.0 (53-1001341-02, July 2009)

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Viewing and editing group properties

Security tab

The Security tab (Figure 11) displays the status of the master key for the encryption group.

NOTE

You must enable encryption engines before you back up or restore master keys.

Master key actions are as follows:

• Back up a master key, which is enabled any time a master key exists.

• Restore a master key, which is enabled when either no master key exists or the previous

master key has been backed up.

• Create a new master key, which is enabled when no master key exists or the previous master

key has been backed up.

See “Master keys” on page 67 for complete information about managing master keys.

NOTE

Encryption is not allowed until the master key has been backed up.

FIGURE 11 Encryption Group Properties - Security tab

HA Clusters tab

HA clusters are groups of encryption engines that provide high availability features. If one of the

engines in the group fails or becomes unreachable, the other cluster member takes over the

encryption and decryption tasks of the failed encryption engine. An HA cluster consists of exactly

two encryption engines. See “Creating high availability (HA) clusters” on page 50.

The HA Clusters tab (Figure 12) allows you to create and delete HA clusters, add encryption

engines to and remove encryption engines from HA clusters, and failback an engine.