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Key restore with EKM fails with No Cryptographic Object found

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • Clustered External Key Managers (EKM)
  • NetApp Volume Encryption (NVE)
  • NetApp Aggregate Encryption (NAE)

Issue

  • Giveback vetoed due to key manager after primary key server fails.
  • Takeover fails with "Failed: Operations was vetoed by keymanager. Check the event log." and key restore fails with the below error.
  • External keys cannot be restored giving the error:
::*> security key-manager external restore -node <node>

Warning: Unable to list entries on node <node>. KMIP "Get" command failed
         on external key server "x.x.x.x:5696". Cryptsoft error:
         "Response status: OPERATION_FAILED. Reason: ITEM_NOT_FOUND. Message:
         No Cryptographic Object found with given Unique Identifier".
Error: show failed: KMIP "Get" command failed on external key server
       "x.x.x.x:5696". Cryptsoft error: "Response status:
       OPERATION_FAILED. Reason: ITEM_NOT_FOUND. Message: No Cryptographic
       Object found with given Unique Identifier".

 

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