Black Box ET0010A User Manual

Maintenance Tasks

78

EncrypTight User Guide

To return status refresh and key renewal to their original settings:
1 If you disabled the automatic status refresh in ETPM in 

, select Edit > Preferences and select ETPM Status. Click the Enable automatic 

status refresh check box and set the Refresh interval (in minutes). 

2 If you changed the Renew keys/Refresh lifetime setting for any policies, edit each policy to reset the 

Renew keys/Refresh lifetime to the previous value and deploy the modified policies (Tools > 
Deploy).

Local ETKMSs are upgraded when you install a new version of the EncrypTight software. See 

 for the local ETKMS upgrade procedure. The following 

information is provided in the event that you need to upgrade the software for external ETKMSs.

Because you might need to restore some settings after the upgrade, record the following:

●

The IP address and name of the ETKMS in the 

/opt/etkms/bin/etkmsParams.sh

 file.

●

Any custom settings you made in the 

/opt/etkms/conf/kdist.properties 

file. 

If you use backup ETKMSs, upgrade the primary and backup ETKMSs at the same time. 

The general steps to upgrade a ETKMS are:

1 Stop and remove the current ETKMS software.
2 Install the new ETKMS software.
3 Configure the new software.
4 Start the ETKMS software.

To stop and remove the current ETKMS software:
1 Login as the root user.
2 Type the following to stop the ETKMS service:

If you use a backup ETKMS, stop the backup ETKMS first and then stop the primary ETKMS 
service. 

3 Type the following to uninstall the ETKMS software:

The

 rpm -e 

command moves the old ETKMS software to the

 /opt/etkms.backup 

file. This 

includes the

 bin/etkms.params.sh 

file, the

 conf/kdist.properties 

file, and the

 keys/ 

directory.

4 Type the following to move the

 etkms.backup 

directory to

 etkms.orig (

in case you need to 

restore the original software later):