Bug ID 2152613: NShield nethsm key generation fails

Last Modified: Feb 03, 2026

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP LTM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
17.1.3, 17.1.3.1

Opened: Nov 17, 2025

Severity: 1-Blocking

Symptoms

NShield nethsm key generation fails when using the GUI. Key creation is successful when using the nShield utility and installing that key on BIG-IP.

Impact

Due to increase in rfs-sync -c, the key creation timeout is triggered and key creation fails.

Conditions

This condition occurs when rfs-sync -c takes more than 30 seconds to sync the newly generated keys.

Workaround

None

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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