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System cannot connect to external key managers: ifconfig - interface not found

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Applies to

  • ONTAP
    • 9.7P5, 9.7P6, 9.7P8
    • 9.6P5
  • root volume encryption
  • External Key Manager

Issue

You receive the following error when attempting to boot into diagnostics kernel to run sldiag (boot_diag)

Continue with boot? yes
yes


PCI device discovery is done.
ERROR: kmip_init: internal error: ifconfig - interface not found
WARNING: kmip_init: authentication keys might not be available.
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*                 A T T E N T I O N                    *
*                                                      *
*       System cannot connect to key managers.         *
*                                                      *
********************************************************
ERROR: kmip_init: halting this NSE system...
Terminated
.
Uptime: 4m21s
System halting...

 

 

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