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