Specify whether to import an existing master key or create a new one. Examples of reasons to import an existing master key include:
You are moving your installation from a staging system to a production system and want to keep access to the database you used with the staging system.
You installed the User Application on the first member of a cluster and are now installing on subsequent members of the cluster (they require the same master key).
Because of a failed disk, you need to restore your User Application. You must reinstall the User Application and specify the same encrypted master key that the previous installation used. This gives you access to the previously stored encrypted data.
Click
to import an existing master key, or click to create a new one.Click
.The installation procedure writes the encrypted master key to the master-key.txt file in the installation directory.
If you chose Section 6.9, Configuring the User Application. After you finish the installation, you must manually record the master key.If you chose , continue with Step 3.
, skip toIf you choose to import an existing encrypted master key, cut and paste the key into the install procedure window.