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Administration Utility

The administration utility (gmadmin) is designed exclusively for use by the SafeNet ProtectToolkit-M device administrator, and allows the following operations:

Initialization of HSMs

Synchronization of HSM clock with the system clock

Setting of the adapter transport mode

Setting security flags

Changing of the SafeNet ProtectToolkit-M device administrator password

Upgrade of the HSM firmware

Allocation of keyset space

De-allocation of keyset space

Creation of keysets

Deletion of keysets

Viewing the HSM event log

Purging the HSM event log

Tampering the HSM

Please note that this section is only intended as a reference for the administration utility. When performing administrative tasks, the reader is strongly advised to refer to Administrative Tasks for details regarding each task.

Figure 1: Administration Utility User Interface