Veritas NetBackup™ 52xx Appliance Initial Configuration Guide
- Preparing for initial configuration
- Appliance configuration guidelines
- About appliance system configuration sequence
- About NetBackup 52xx appliance roles
- About IPv4-IPv6-based network support
- Overview of the initial configuration pages in the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
- About the NetBackup appliance initial configuration checklist
- About configuring the maximum transmission unit size
- Initial configuration procedures
- Performing the initial configuration on a NetBackup 52xx appliance from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
- Performing the initial configuration on a 52xx primary server appliance from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- Configuring a primary server to communicate with an appliance media server
- Performing the initial configuration on a 52xx media server appliance from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
- Post configuration procedures
- Index
Overview of the initial configuration pages in the NetBackup Appliance Web Console
The NetBackup Appliance Web Console lets you perform the initial configuration through a series of pages where you enter the appropriate information. The following shows each page along with a brief description of the required information.
This page appears when you log on to an appliance that is not configured. It provides a short summary of the necessary information for the initial configuration.
This page is used to change the factory default passwords for the admin, maintenance, and sysadmin (IPMI) user accounts. The initial configuration cannot proceed beyond this page until all default passwords have been changed.
This page is used to enter your corporate network information. The upper table contains tabs for entering the Interface Properties and the Routing Properties information. The lower table contains drop down tabs that expand to enter the Create Bond, Tag VLAN, and Add Static Route information.
This page is used to enter the host identification information for this appliance. The appliance host name (FQDN and short name), the IP address, and the domain name are all required.
This page is used to set the date, the time, and the time zone for the appliance location.
This page is used to configure system alerts and the Call Home feature for reporting problems.
This page is used to select the role for the appliance as either a primary server or a media server. When you select , you are required to provide a Veritas Usage Insights customer registration key as described in the displayed instructions. For more information, see the Veritas NetInsights Console User Guide, or click the following link and sign in to the NetInsights portal with your Veritas Account Manager credentials:
https://netInsights.veritas.com
When you select , a description of prerequisites appears, along with a data entry field to enter the name of the associated primary server.
After entering the primary server name that you select to use with this media server, one of the following certificate scenarios appears so that you can deploy the appropriate certificate to this appliance:
Primary server that uses an external CA and a NetBackup certificate authority:
Primary server that uses an external CA only:
Primary server that uses a NetBackup CA only:
The NetBackup Catalog tab on this page is used to set the size of the NetBackup catalog. This tab appears only when you select for the appliance role.
The AdvancedDisk tab on this page is used to allocate storage space for the AdvancedDisk partition and to name the storage unit and the disk pool.
The MSDP tab on this page is used to allocate storage space for the Media Server Deduplication Pool partition and to name the storage unit and the disk pool.
