Managing clients, client groups, and their cryptographic objects
You can use the IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager graphical user interface or REST APIs to manage clients, their cryptographic objects, and client groups.
Use the following table to understand the management operations that you can perform on a client, client group, and cryptographic object:
Operation | Using graphical user interface | Using REST API |
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Client operations | ||
Creating a client with the IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager server. | Creating a client by using the graphical user interface | Create Client REST Service |
Modifying client information. | Modifying a client by using the graphical user interface | |
Deleting a client and its associated objects from the database. | Deleting a client or a cryptographic object | Delete Client REST Service |
Exporting client information. | Exporting a client by using the graphical user interface | Client Export REST Service |
Importing client information. | Importing a client by using the graphical user interface | Client Import REST Service |
Cryptographic object operations | ||
Creating and configuring cryptographic objects for the client devices. | Adding cryptographic objects by using the graphical user interface Note: You can create only keys of key
pair and symmetric type from the graphical user interface.
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Viewing objects for a client. | Viewing the list of clients and cryptographic objects by using the graphical user interface You can use the Search tab in the IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager graphical user interface to find the cryptographic objects based on specific search criteria. |
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Modifying the cryptographic objects that are associated with a client. | Not available | Certificate Attribute Update REST Service |
Deleting the cryptographic objects that are associated with a client. | Not available | Delete Object REST Service* |
Client group operations | ||
Creating and managing a client group. | Creating and managing a client group by using the graphical user interface | Client management |