MetroCluster switchover-simulate fails due to missing encryption keys

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Oct 2, 2023
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Category:: ontap-9

Specialty:: metrocluster

Last Updated:: 10/2/2023, 10:05:29 AM

Applies to

ONTAP 9
MetroCluster
Thales CipherTrust Manager (CTM)
External key Manager (EKM)

Issue

The following error is observed:

MCC-A::> metrocluster operation show

Operation: switchover-simulate

State: failed

Start Time: 9/1/2023 16:13:31

End Time: 9/1/2023 16:13:40

Errors: Failed to validate the node and cluster components before the switchover operation.

                  MCC-A (overridable veto): Partner cluster node: MCC-A-01 missing keymanager encryption key with key-id 00000000000000000200000000000xxxxxxxxxxxxxx0000000000000000.

When re-adding a removed key-server after promoting a secondary key-server to the primary the keys are also not synced.
ONTAP is able to publish the keys to the EKM when encrypting the volume and is able to locate them. We see this in the KMIP2-CLIENT.GZ AutopSupport section:

DEBUG: kmip2::kmipCmds::KmipLocateCmd: [doCmdImp]:123: KMIP Locate executed successfully!

The KmipGet fails, however:

ERR: kmip2::tables::kmip_keytable_v2: [queryKeyserverForKey]:1965: Get command failed: KmipGetException: NOT_FOUND (11)

In CTM Records/Loki Audit records section, a record not found error is given at the same time. The metadata can be viewed in CTM to match the identifier to the ONTAP key-id:

{

"acc": "user1",

"acct": "user1:user1:admin:accounts:user1",

"iss": "sallyport",

"sub": "efbbdcf4-c523-4ad0-8152-xxxxxxxxxxxx"

}

details

{

"errorMessage": "record not found",

"identifier": "9e968b1433004c61b2c38fd73d452d53b05ca2087fbe4332af80xxxxxxxxxxxx"

}