Introduction

This guide details the maintenance procedures for Unbound CORE Information Security ("CORE"). It includes the following topics:

• EKMEnterprise Key Management - previous name of the product. Service management.
• Database protection, backup, and restore.
• Software upgrade.
• Certificate renewal.
• Partition access recovery.
• Controlling audit, crypto, and troubleshooting logs.
• Handling alerts.

 

This guide is a part of the following CORE user-oriented guides:

- CORE General Information User Guide

Specifications, Requirements, and Concepts.

- CORE Installation User Guide

Installation and Upgrade procedures.

- CORE FIPS User Guide

A concise summary of distinctive FIPSFederal Information Processing Standards - standards developed by the United States federal government for use in computer systems by non-military government agencies and government contractors-mode features and procedures.

- CORE KMIP User Guide

Configuring CORE as a KMIPKey Management Interoperability Protocol - an extensible communication protocol that defines message formats for the manipulation of cryptographic keys on a key management server server.

- CORE IAM User Guide

User and Device authentication and authorization control.

- CORE Key Management User Guide

Keys, capabilities, authorization, and lifecycle procedures.

- CORE Maintenance User Guide

Backup, Restore, Database protection, Upgrade, Certificate renewal, and similar.

- CORE Interfaces User Guide

Definitive specification of UI and CLICommand Line Interface commands and settings.

Revision History

For the history preceding the 2.0.2103 release, see Revision History of 2.0.2010 and earlier releases.

Release	Date	Changes
2.0.2112	March 2022	Added Root CA Certificate pre-expiration time frame, the expiration validation, and the renewal process to Certificate Renewal. Added post-upgrade procedure to enable TOTPTime-based One Time Password-based second factor in 2FATwo-factor authentication - Authentication method that requires both something a user has (for example, a certificate) and something the user knows (for example, a password) of a partition users.
2.0.2106	September 2021	Rebranded the product name from Unbound Key Control (UKC) to Unbound CORE. Updated the crypto log file name in Crypto Logs and Server Upgrade.
2.0.2103	May 2021	Refactored from UKC User Guide 2.0.2010.