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 Groups

>HSM Initialization

>HSM Status Values

>Keys In Hardware vs. Private Key Export

>Partitions

>PED Authentication

>Performance Monitoring

>Security Effects of Administrative Actions

>Secure Transport Mode

>Secure Trusted Channel (STC)

>Slot Numbering and Behavior

>SNMP Monitoring

>Tamper Events

>Troubleshooting

>Updates and Upgrades

>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.