Install Utimaco vESKM in ProxMox

1. Download Utimaco vESKM 8.50.0 from https://support.hsm.utimaco.com/vskm-software.
2. Select the desired Storage, select Import and click Upload to select the OVA file (vESKM_8.50_signed.ova) to upload it.
3. Select the OVA and click Import to create a VM from it.
4. After the VM is created, modify the SCSI Controller in Hardware to VMware PVSCSI.
5. Power on the VM.

Thales CipherTrust Manager Appliance Default Login

 Try:

username: ksadmin

It will let you set up the initial password.

For some reason, admin/admin does not work out of the box (at least for version 2.20).

Utimaco EKSM Default Password

admin

Utimaco.EKSM

dhclient not found in Ubuntu 24.04

hostname:~$ sudo apt install isc-dhcp-client

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

Reading state information... Done

The following additional packages will be installed:

  isc-dhcp-common

Suggested packages:

  avahi-autoipd isc-dhcp-client-ddns

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  isc-dhcp-client isc-dhcp-common

0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 60 not upgraded.

Need to get 375 kB of archives.

After this operation, 1011 kB of additional disk space will be used.

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Get:1 http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 isc-dhcp-client amd64 4.4.3-P1-4ubuntu2 [329 kB]

Get:2 http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 isc-dhcp-common amd64 4.4.3-P1-4ubuntu2 [45.8 kB]

Fetched 375 kB in 1s (316 kB/s)           

Selecting previously unselected package isc-dhcp-client.

(Reading database ... 87615 files and directories currently installed.)

Preparing to unpack .../isc-dhcp-client_4.4.3-P1-4ubuntu2_amd64.deb ...

Unpacking isc-dhcp-client (4.4.3-P1-4ubuntu2) ...

Selecting previously unselected package isc-dhcp-common.

Preparing to unpack .../isc-dhcp-common_4.4.3-P1-4ubuntu2_amd64.deb ...

Unpacking isc-dhcp-common (4.4.3-P1-4ubuntu2) ...

Setting up isc-dhcp-client (4.4.3-P1-4ubuntu2) ...

Setting up isc-dhcp-common (4.4.3-P1-4ubuntu2) ...

Processing triggers for man-db (2.12.0-4build2) ...

Scanning processes...                                                                                                                                                                                                    

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Running kernel seems to be up-to-date.

No services need to be restarted.

No containers need to be restarted.

No user sessions are running outdated binaries.

No VM guests are running outdated hypervisor (qemu) binaries on this host.

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Sort CSV Numerically

To avoid this error:

sort: Illegal byte sequence

Add the LC_All=C:

 LC_ALL=C sort -t',' -k1,1V allitems.csv