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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:

•Audit Logging

•Backup and Restore HSMs and Partitions

•Capabilities and Policies

•Configuration File Summary

•Decommissioning, Zeroizing, or Resetting an HSM to Factory Conditions

•High-Availability (HA) Configuration and Operation

•HSM Initialization

•HSM Status Values

•Partitions

•PED Authentication

•Performance

•Security Effects of Administrative Actions

•Secure Transport Mode

•Secure Trusted Channel (STC)

•Slot Numbering and Behavior

•Software, Firmware, and Capability Upgrades

•SNMP Monitoring

•Troubleshooting

•User and Password Administration

This preface also includes the following information about this document:

•Customer Release Notes

•Audience

•Document Conventions

•Support Contacts

For information regarding the document status and revision history, see Document Information.