External key management server is not responding
Applies to
- ONTAP 9.10.1P9
- KMIP
Issue
- Configuration of the key manager servers consistently show not-responding in the event log. To check the key manager status you can perform the following:
valt-01::> key-manager show -status
(security key-manager show)
Node Port Registered Key Manager Status
---------------------- ------ --------------------------- ---------------
valt-01-01 5696 10.36.xx.2x not-responding
valt-01-01 5696 10.46.xx.2x not-responding
valt-01-01 5696 10.149.xx.1x not-responding
- MGWD logs show events similar to:
5/24/2021 11:21:10 amp-01-02 ALERTkm.keyserver.notavailable:The external key management server "10.46.xx.2x:5696" is not available for Vserver "amp-01", status: "not-responding".