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NetBackup™ Cloud Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2022-03-27

Product(s): NetBackup (10.0)

Displaying KMS key information for cloud storage encryption

You can use the nbkmsutil command to list the following information about the key groups and the key records:

Key groups	See To display KMS key group information.
Keys	See To display KMS key information.

Note:

It is recommended that you keep a record key information. The key tag that is listed in the output is necessary if you need to recover keys.

To display KMS key group information

To list all of the key groups, use the nbkmsutil with the -listkgs option. The following is the command format:
UNIX: /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbkmsutil -listkgs
Windows: install_path\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\admincmd\nbkmsutil -listkgs
The following is example output on UNIX hosted storage. On Windows, the volume name is not used.
```
nbkmsutil -listkgs

Key Group Name        : CloudStorageVendor.com:symc_volume_for_backups
Supported Cypher      : AES_256
Number of Keys        : 1
Has Active Key        : Yes
Creation Time         : Tues Jan 01 01:00:00 2013
Last Modification Time: Tues Jan 01 01:00:00 2013
Description           : -
```

To display KMS key information

To list all of the keys that belong to a key group name, use the nbkmsutil with the -listkgs and -kgname options. The following is the command format:

UNIX: /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbkmsutil -listkeys -kgname AdvDiskServer1.example.com:AdvDisk_Volume

Windows: install_path\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\admincmd\nbkmsutil -listkeys -kgname AdvDiskServer1.example.com:

The following is example output on UNIX hosted storage. On Windows, the volume name is not used.

nbkmsutil -listkeys -kgname CloudStorageVendor.com:symc_volume_for_backup

Key Group Name        : CloudStorageVendor.com:symc_volume_for_backups
Supported Cypher      : AES_256
Number of Keys        : 1
Has Active Key        : Yes
Creation Time         : Tues Jan 01 01:00:00 2013
Last Modification Time: Tues Jan 01 01:00:00 2013
Description           : -

 Key Tag      : 532cf41cc8b3513a13c1c26b5128731e5ca0b9b01e0689cc38ac2b7596bbae3c
 Key Name              : Encrypt_Key_April
 Current State         : Active
 Creation Time         : Tues Jan 01 01:02:00 2013
 Last Modification Time: Tues Jan 01 01:02:00 2013
 Description           : -

You can also use the nbkmscmd command to list the keys from NetBackup KMS and external KMS server. You need to ensure that a Symmetric encryption key already exists in the external KMS server with a custom attribute with value of key group in the 'storage_server_name:volume_name' format.

To display the key information for NetBackup KMS and external KMS

Run the following command to retrieve the KMS server configuration names.
nbkmscmd -listkmsconfig
Run the following command to retrieve key information for a key group from the KMS server.
nbkmscmd -listkeys -name KMS_server_name -keyGroupName key_group_name -jsonRaw