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Integrating Key Manager to SafeNet Network HSM

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

  1. Set up and configure SafeNet Clients on Key Manager Servers to connect to a HSM partition (SafeNet Client Setup on Key Manager Servers and SafeNet Client Setup on the HSM).

  2. Generate a SSH key pair on the HSM partition (Generating Agentless Management Keys to HSM).

  3. Configure Key Manager to use the SSH keys on the HSM partition as agentless management keys (Configure Key Manager to Use HSM 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.