About the Administration Guide

This document describes the operational and administrative tasks you can perform to maintain the functionality and efficiency of your HSMs. It contains the following chapters:

>Application Partitions

>Audit Logging

>Backup and Restore Using a G5-Based Backup HSM

>Backup and Restore Using a G7-Based Backup HSM

>Capabilities and Policies

>Client-Partition Connections

>Configuration File Summary

>Decommissioning, Zeroizing, Re-imaging, or Resetting an HSM to Factory Conditions

>High-Availability Groups

>HSM Initialization

>HSM Status Values

>PED Authentication

>Performance Monitoring

>Security Effects of Administrative Actions

>Secure Transport Mode

>Slot Numbering and Behavior

>SNMP Monitoring

>Tamper Events

>Troubleshooting

>Updates and Upgrades

>Users and Roles

The preface includes the following information about this document:

>Customer Release Notes

>Audience

>Document Conventions

>Support Contacts

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