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Unable to Establish Secure Connection When Configuring External Key Management

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • External Key Management
  • Thales G460
  • CipherTrust Manager (CTM)
  • Fortranix

Issue

When connecting to a new external key management server the following error is displayed:

Cluster::> security key-manager external enable -key-servers kms.abc.com:5696 -client-cert 12caXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXX -server-ca-certs RootCA -vserver SVM1

Error: command failed: The following issues were found:
Unable to establish secure connection to KMIP server "kms.abc.com". Cryptsoft error: "I/O Error".

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