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Known problems with hardware cryptographic support on AIX

This topic contains troubleshooting information for known problems with the cryptographic hardware on AIX®.

[AIX]You must install the bos.pkcs11 package to get the PKCS11 module, and to initialize the device on AIX.

An added update to the bos.pkcs11 package fixed a forking problem. Obtain the most recent copy of the bos.pkcs11 package from the IBM® PSeries Support Site, to ensure you have this fix.

If you are having problems using the IBM eBusiness Cryptographic Accelerator Device with IBM HTTP Server, do the following:
  1. Reboot the machine.
  2. Kill pkcsslotd and the shared memory that it created. To determine the shared memory that was created, type ipcs -a. Find the segment with size 270760 to determine the memory segment that was created by pkcsslotd.
  3. Export EXPSHM=ON.
  4. Start the pkcs11 process: /etc/rc.pkcsw11
  5. Restart IBM HTTP Server: ./apachectl start

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