Changing the preferred encryption-settings definition

The encryption-settings tool with the set-preferred subcommand provides a mechanism for changing the preferred encryption-settings definition.

About this task

To change a definition to a preferred definition:

Steps

To change a definition, use the encryption-settings tool with the set-preferred subcommand to change a definition to a preferred definition.

This subcommand takes the following argument.

The `set-preferred` subcommand accepted argument
Argument	Description
`--id <id>`(required)	Specifies the ID to export for the encryption-settings definition.

Example:

$ bin/encryption-settings set-preferred --id 4D86C7922F71BB57B8B5695D2993059A26B8FC01

Result:

Encryption settings definition 4D86C7922F71BB57B8B5695D2993059A26B8FC01 was
successfully set as the preferred definition for subsequent encryption operations