Lock the SED drives using the authentication key

You can use the apsedkey enable command to apply a given AEK to all of the SED drives of IIAS appliance.

Procedure

  1. Log in as apuser or equivalent user.
  2. Run the following command to lock the SED drives of IIAS using a given AEK: 
    apsedkey enable --file <file> --label <label>

    The command enables a key on the drives. It specifies the file that contains the key to use and the label for the key to be called in the key store.

    Sample output:

    [apuser@sfm02-node0103]# apsedkey enable --file /tmp/key1.txt  --label mykey
Enabled key 'mykey'
/tmp/key1.txt can now be safely deleted.