Brocade Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide Supporting Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) Key-Compliant Environments (Supporting Fabric OS v7.1.0) - Manual (Page 14)

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• Chapter 6, “Maintenance and Troubleshooting,” provides information on troubleshooting and
the most common commands and procedures to use to diagnose and recover from problems.
• Appendix A, “State and Status Information,” lists the encryption engine security processor (SP)
states, security processor key encryption key (KEK) status information, and encrypted LUN
states.
Supported hardware and software
. The following hardware platforms support data encryption as described in this manual.
• Brocade DCX Backbone series chassis with an FS8-18 encryption blade.
• Brocade Encryption Switch.
• Any KMIP-compliant server can be registered as a key vault on the Brocade Encryption Switch
after setting the key vault type to KMIP. Currently, only KMIP with SafeNet KeySecure for key
management (SSKM) native hosting LKM is supported.
What’s new in this document
This document identifies any encryption changes that support Fabric OS 7.1.0.
Document conventions
This section describes text formatting conventions and important notice formats used in this
document.
Text formatting
The narrative-text formatting conventions that are used are as follows:
bold text Identifies command names
Identifies the names of user-manipulated GUI elements
Identifies keywords and operands
Identifies text to enter at the GUI or CLI
italic text Provides emphasis
Identifies variables
Identifies paths and Internet addresses
Identifies document titles
code
text Identifies CLI output
Identifies command syntax examples
For readability, command names in the narrative portions of this guide are presented in mixed
lettercase: for example, switchShow. In actual examples, command lettercase is often all
lowercase. Otherwise, this manual specifically notes those cases in which a command is case
sensitive.