HP UX IPSec Software Kernel, Policy Cache Threshold reached or Kernel Policy Cache Threshold exceeded), false, Problem, Symptoms, Restarting Registration

Troubleshooting HP-UX IPSec

Troubleshooting Scenarios

using a web proxy server to access the VeriSign Managed PKI Control Center, verify the proxy server configuration (run ipsec_mgr, click on the Options menu, select System, then select Proxy Information).

Have the Managed PKI Administrator use the View Certificates area of the Managed PKI Control Center to check for an existing certificate. If a certificate already exists for your system, the VeriSign CA rejects any requests for a new certificate.

Restarting Registration If VeriSign registration fails, the associated files may be left in an unusable state. You must reset them before trying to reregister. To do this, change the pending field in /var/adm/ipsec/cainfo.txt to false and verify that the VeriSign domain name and CA address are correct, as follows:

begin verisign pending: false

domain: name_of_domain

caserver: VeriSign_CA_address

You must also delete the /var/adm/ipsec/javabeans.txt and /var/adm/ipsec/certs.txt files.

Check the Managed PKI Control Center for an already existing certificate request or certificate, and deny or revoke it before restarting the registration process.

Security Policy Database Limit Exceeded (Kernel

Policy Cache Threshold reached or Kernel Policy Cache Threshold exceeded)

Problem

The Security Policy Database (SPD) is near or exceeding the soft or hard size limit.

Symptoms

The SPD is the HP-UX IPSec runtime policy database, with cached policy decisions for packet descriptors (five-tuples consisting of exact, non-wildcard source IP address, destination IP address, protocol, source port, and destination port).

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