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Integrating Key Manager to nShield HSM

This chapter provides instructions about setting up Key Manager to provision and use an agentless- management-key pair from a nShield Network HSM partition. The high-level workflow for this procedure is the following:

  1. Set up and configure nShield Clients on Key Manger Servers to connect to a Remote File System (RFS) on your HSM.

  2. Configure Key Manager to use the SSH keys on the RFS as agentless management keys.

Agentless management keys are SSH keys used by Key Manager to access agentless hosts. Key Manager can be configured to use management keys stored in an external Hardware Security Module (HSM), instead of storing the management keys in the Key Manager Database.