Oracle Key Manager - IBM LTO encryption drives are not requesting new encryption key but use expired key

Asset ID:	1-72-1589417.1
Update Date:	2016-04-12
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Solution 1589417.1 : Oracle Key Manager - IBM LTO encryption drives are not requesting new encryption key but use expired key

Applies to:

IBM LTO4 Tape Drive - Version Not Applicable and later
IBM LTO5 Tape Drive - Version Not Applicable and later
IBM LTO6 Tape Drive - Version All Versions and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.
See the OKM System Assurance Guide for details of the differences of encryption behavior with STK, HP and IBM drives

Symptoms

IBM LTO drives are not requesting a new encryption key on a write append of media.

Existing encryption key has expired

Changes

None

Cause

IBM 4/5/6 drives have a difference of functionality with encryption.

They will only use one Key per tape when appending to media, even if key policy has the key as an expired key

Drives will use the existing key that was was on media.

Solution

Drive will use the same key for the tape until the tape is labeled again and written from BOT

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