DCFM Enterprise User Manual (53-1001775-01, June 2010)

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Consequences of removing an encryption switch

Table 25 explains the impact of removing switches.

Figure 259 shows the warning message that displays if you click Remove to remove a switch.

FIGURE 259 Removal of switch warning

TABLE 25 Switch removal impact

Switch configuration Impact of removal

The switch is the only switch in the encryption

group.

The encryption group is also removed.

The switch has configured encryption targets on

encryption engines.

• The switch is configured to encrypt traffic to one or more

encryption targets.

• The target container configuration is removed.

• The encrypted data remains on the encryption target but

is not usable until the encryption target is manually

configured on another encryption switch.

CAUTION

The encryption target data is visible in

encrypted format to zoned hosts. It is

strongly recommended that you remove the

encryption targets from all zones before you

disable encryption. Otherwise, hosts may

corrupt the encrypted data by writing

directly to the encryption target without

encryption.

The switch has encryption engines in HA

Clusters.

The HA Clusters are removed. High availability is no longer

provided to the other encryption engine in each HA Cluster.