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  2. NetBackup™ Security and Encryption Guide
  3. Section III. Encryption of data at rest
  4. NetBackup key management service
  5. Command line interface (CLI) commands
  6. Get details of key groups
NetBackup™ Security and Encryption Guide

Get details of key groups

To get details of key groups, use the NetBackup Key Management Service (KMS) utility command (the nbkmsutil command) with the included arguments.

nbkmsutil -help -listkgs
nbkmsutil -listkgs [ -kgname <key_group_name> |
-cipher <type> |
-emptykgs |
-noactive ]
[ -noverbose ]

Note:

By default all of the key groups are be listed. If no option is specified, the details of all of the key groups are returned.

-kgname

Specifies the name of a key group.

-cipher

Gets the details of all the key groups which support specific cipher type.

-emptykgs

Gets the details of all the key groups with zero keys in it.

-noactive

Gets the details of all the key groups in which there is no active key.

-noverbose

Prints the details in formatted form (non-readable) format. The default is verbose. The output is displayed in a human readable form.

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