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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Cloud Administrator's Guide
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  4. Displaying KMS key information for cloud storage encryption
Veritas NetBackup™ Cloud Administrator's Guide

Displaying KMS key information for cloud storage encryption

You can use the nbkmsutil command to list the following information about the key groups and the key records:

Key groups

See To display KMS key group information.

Keys

See To display KMS key information.

Note:

Veritas recommends that you keep a record key information. The key tag that is listed in the output is necessary if you need to recover keys.

To display KMS key group information

  • To list all of the key groups, use the nbkmsutil with the -listkgs option. The following is the command format:

    UNIX: /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbkmsutil -listkgs

    Windows: install_path\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\admincmd\nbkmsutil -listkgs

    The following is example output on UNIX hosted storage. On Windows, the volume name is not used.

    nbkmsutil -listkgs
    
    Key Group Name        : CloudStorageVendor.com:symc_volume_for_backups
    Supported Cypher      : AES_256
    Number of Keys        : 1
    Has Active Key        : Yes
    Creation Time         : Tues Jan 01 01:00:00 2013
    Last Modification Time: Tues Jan 01 01:00:00 2013
    Description           : -

To display KMS key information

  • To list all of the keys that belong to a key group name, use the nbkmsutil with the -listkgs and -kgname options. The following is the command format:

    UNIX: /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbkmsutil -listkeys -kgname AdvDiskServer1.example.com:AdvDisk_Volume

    Windows: install_path\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\admincmd\nbkmsutil -listkeys -kgname AdvDiskServer1.example.com:

    The following is example output on UNIX hosted storage. On Windows, the volume name is not used.

    nbkmsutil -listkeys -kgname CloudStorageVendor.com:symc_volume_for_backup
    
    Key Group Name        : CloudStorageVendor.com:symc_volume_for_backups
    Supported Cypher      : AES_256
    Number of Keys        : 1
    Has Active Key        : Yes
    Creation Time         : Tues Jan 01 01:00:00 2013
    Last Modification Time: Tues Jan 01 01:00:00 2013
    Description           : -
    
      Key Tag      : 532cf41cc8b3513a13c1c26b5128731e5ca0b9b01e0689cc38ac2b7596bbae3c
      Key Name              : Encrypt_Key_April
      Current State         : Active
      Creation Time         : Tues Jan 01 01:02:00 2013
      Last Modification Time: Tues Jan 01 01:02:00 2013
      Description           : -

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