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Veritas NetBackup™ Virtual Appliance Documentation

Last Published: 2022-04-25

Product(s): Appliances (5.0)

Platform: NetBackup Virtual Appliance

Getting to know the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
1. NetBackup Virtual Appliance product description
2. NetBackup Virtual Appliance supported features
3. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance documentation
4. NetBackup Virtual Appliance 5.0 new features, enhancements, and changes
5. Known limitations of the NetBackup Virtual Appliance 5.0 release
6. Operational Notes for the NetBackup Virtual Appliance 5.0 release
Preparing to deploy the appliance
1. NetBackup Virtual Appliance product files (OVF templates)
2. NetBackup Virtual Appliance deployment methods
3. NetBackup Virtual Appliance deployment guidelines
  1. Configuration overview for NetBackup Virtual Appliance MSDP cloud applications
  2. NetBackup Virtual Appliance initial deployment checklist
Deploying and configuring the appliance
1. How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined primary and media server
2. How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance media server
3. How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance primary server
Post initial configuration procedures
1. About modifying the NetBackup Virtual Appliance settings
2. Adding a permanent license key if an evaluation license key expires
3. Managing license keys on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
Appliance common tasks
1. Common tasks in NetBackup Virtual Appliance
Storage management
1. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance storage configuration
2. About OpenStorage plugin installation
  1. Installing the OpenStorage plugin
  2. Uninstalling the OpenStorage plugin
Deduplication pool catalog backup and recovery
1. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance deduplication pool catalog backup policy
2. Automatic configuration of the NetBackup Virtual Appliance deduplication pool catalog backup policy
3. Manually configuring the NetBackup Virtual Appliance deduplication pool catalog backup policy
4. Manually updating the NetBackup Virtual Appliance deduplication pool catalog backup policy
5. Recovering the NetBackup Virtual Appliance deduplication pool catalog
Network connection management
1. About IPv4-IPv6-based network support
2. Network settings for the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
3. Configuring DNS and host name mapping for the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
4. Setting the date and time on a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
5. Configuring static routes on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
6. Expanding the bandwidth on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
Managing users
1. About managing NetBackup Virtual Appliance users
2. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance account types
3. Adding NetBackup Virtual Appliance users
4. Deleting NetBackup Virtual Appliance users
5. Adding NetBackup Virtual Appliance user groups
6. Deleting NetBackup Virtual Appliance user groups
7. Granting roles to NetBackup Virtual Appliance users and user groups
8. Revoking roles from NetBackup Virtual Appliance users and user groups
9. About user name and password specifications
  1. About STIG-compliant password policy rules
10. Changing NetBackup Virtual Appliance user passwords
11. About password management and recovery
12. About authenticating LDAP users
13. About authenticating Active Directory users
  1. Adding an Active Directory server configuration
  2. Unconfiguring Active Directory user authentication on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
14. About authentication using Smart Cards and digital certificates
15. About authenticating Kerberos-NIS users
  1. Adding a Kerberos-NIS authentication configuration on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
  2. Unconfiguring Kerberos-NIS user authentication on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
16. Generic user authentication guidelines
17. About user authorization on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
18. Creating NetBackup administrator user accounts
19. Deleting NetBackup administrator user accounts
Using the appliance
1. About configuring Host parameters for your appliance on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
2. About Copilot functionality and Share management
3. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance as a VMware backup host
  1. NetBackup Virtual Appliance as backup host: component overview
  2. Notes on NetBackup Virtual Appliance as a VMware backup host
4. About running NetBackup commands from the appliance
5. About mounting a remote NFS
  1. Mounting a remote NFS drive
  2. Unmounting an NFS drive
6. About Auto Image Replication from a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
7. Generating certificates
Monitoring the appliance
1. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance alerts
2. Setting up email notifications for a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
3. Setting up SNMP notifications for a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
4. Enabling and disabling Call Home from the appliance shell menu
5. Configuring a Call Home proxy server from the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
6. About SNMP
  1. About the Management Information Base (MIB)
7. About Call Home
  1. Understanding the Call Home workflow
  2. About the Product Improvement Program
8. About AutoSupport
9. About storage email alerts
Appliance security
1. About Symantec Data Center Security on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
2. About data security
3. About data integrity
4. About data classification
5. About data encryption
  1. KMS support
6. About SSL usage
7. About implementing ECA certificates
8. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance intrusion detection system
9. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance intrusion prevention system
10. Major components of the NetBackup Virtual Appliance OS
11. OS STIG hardening for NetBackup Virtual Appliance
12. FIPS 140-2 conformance for NetBackup Virtual Appliance
13. Disable user access to the NetBackup appliance operating system
14. Manage support access to the maintenance shell
15. About the appliance login banner
16. Setting the appliance login banner
  1. Creating the appliance login banner
  2. Removing the appliance login banner
17. Log Forwarding feature overview
Upgrading the appliance
1. About upgrading to NetBackup Virtual Appliance software version 5.0
2. Requirements and best practices for upgrading NetBackup appliances
  1. Upgrade time estimation
3. Pre-upgrade tasks for appliance upgrades
4. Methods for downloading appliance software release updates
  1. Downloading software updates directly to a NetBackup appliance
  2. Downloading software updates to a NetBackup appliance using a client share
5. Installing a NetBackup Virtual Appliance software update using the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
6. Troubleshooting upgrade issues
NetBackup client upgrades with VxUpdate
1. About VxUpdate
2. VxUpdate repository management
3. Deployment policy management
4. Manually initiating upgrades from the primary server using VxUpdate
5. Manually initiating upgrades from the client using VxUpdate
6. Deployment job status
Appliance restore
1. About appliance restore
2. Creating an appliance checkpoint from the appliance shell menu
3. Rollback to an appliance checkpoint from the appliance shell menu
4. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance factory reset
5. Factory reset best practices
6. How to factory reset the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
Decommissioning and Reconfiguring
1. About decommissioning a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
2. Decommissioning a NetBackup Virtual Appliance with the media server role
3. Migrating from NetBackup Cloud Catalyst Appliance to MSDP direct cloud tiering
Troubleshooting
1. About troubleshooting the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
2. About contacting Technical Support
3. Determining the NetBackup Virtual Appliance serial number
4. About disaster recovery
  1. Recovering a NetBackup appliance primary server using NetBackup catalog restore
5. About NetBackup support utilities
  1. NetBackup Domain Network Analyzer (NBDNA)
  2. NetBackup Support Utility (NBSU)
6. Troubleshooting NetBackup Virtual Appliance deployment or initial configuration issues
7. Error messages displayed on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
8. NetBackup status codes applicable for NetBackup Virtual Appliance
9. Installing an EEB
10. Rolling back an EEB using the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
Appliance logging
1. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance log files
2. Viewing log files using the Support command
3. Where to find NetBackup Virtual Appliance log files using the Browse command
4. Enabling and disabling VxMS logging
5. Gathering device logs on a NetBackup virtual appliance
6. Moving the log data
7. About forwarding logs to an external server
Commands overview
1. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
2. Logging in to the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
3. Using the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
4. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu command views
Appendix A. Appliance commands
1. Appliance > Primary
2. Appliance > Media
3. Appliance > ShowDedupPassword
4. Appliance > Status
5. Appliance > Configure
Appendix B. Manage commands
1. Manage > Software > Delete
2. Manage > Software > Download
3. Manage > Software > List
4. Manage > Software > Install
5. Manage > Software > Share
6. Manage > Software > Readme
7. Manage > Software > Rollback
8. Manage > Software > Cancel
9. Manage > Software > DownloadAnalyzer
10. Manage > Software > DownloadProgress
11. Manage > Software > UpgradeStatus
12. Manage > Software > VxUpdate
13. Manage > Storage > Show
14. Manage > Storage > Add
15. Manage > Storage > Create
16. Manage > Storage > Delete
17. Manage > Storage > Edit
18. Manage > Storage > Monitor
19. Manage > Storage > Move
20. Manage > Storage > Remove
21. Manage > Storage > Resize
22. Manage > Storage > Scan
23. Manage > OpenStorage > Install
24. Manage > OpenStorage > List
25. Manage > OpenStorage > Readme
26. Manage > OpenStorage > Share
27. Manage > OpenStorage > Uninstall
28. Manage > MountPoints > List
29. Manage > MountPoints > Mount
30. Manage > MountPoints > Unmount
31. Manage > License > Add
32. Manage > License > List
33. Manage > License > ListInfo
34. Manage > License > Remove
35. Manage > Certificates > Generate
36. Manage > Certificates > Delete
37. Manage > NetBackupCLI > Create
38. Manage > NetBackupCLI > Delete
39. Manage > NetBackupCLI > List
Appendix C. Monitor commands
1. Monitor > Uptime
2. Monitor > Who
3. Monitor > NetworkStatus
4. Monitor > Top
5. Monitor > MemoryStatus
6. Monitor > SDCS
7. Monitor > NetBackup
8. Monitor > Hardware
Appendix D. Network commands
1. Network > Configure
2. Network > Date
3. Network > DNS
4. Network > Gateway
5. Network > Hostname
6. Network > Hosts
7. Network > IPv4
8. Network > IPv6
9. Network > LinkAggregation
10. Network > NetStat
11. Network > NTPServer
12. Network > Ping
13. Network > SetProperty
14. Network > Show
15. Network > TimeZone
16. Network > TraceRoute
17. Network > Unconfigure
18. Network > WANOptimization
Appendix E. Reports commands
1. Reports > Deduplication
2. Reports > Process
Appendix F. Settings commands
1. Settings > Deduplication
2. Settings > LifeCycle
3. Settings > LogForwarding
4. Settings > NetBackup
5. Settings > NetBackup DNAT
6. Settings > NetBackup NATServers
7. Settings > Password
8. Settings > SystemLocale
9. Settings > Share
10. Settings > Sysctl
11. Settings > Notifications > LoginBanner
12. Settings > Security > Authentication > AccountStatus
13. Settings > Security > Authentication > LDAP
14. Settings > Security > Authentication > ActiveDirectory
15. Settings > Security > Authentication > Kerberos
16. Settings > Security > Authentication > LocalUser
17. Main > Settings > Security > Authentication > CIFSShare
18. Settings > Security > Authorization
19. Main > Settings > Security > Certificate
20. Main > Settings > Security > Certificate > CertificateSigningRequest
21. Main > Settings > Security > STIG
22. Main > Settings > Security > FIPS
23. Main > Settings > Security > SecurityLevel
24. Main > Settings > Security > Sessions
25. Settings > Alerts > CallHome
26. Settings > Alerts > SNMP
27. Settings > Alerts > Email
28. Settings > Alerts > Hardware
Appendix G. Support commands
1. Support > Checkpoint
2. Support > Cleanup > CleanMonInvData
3. Support > DataCollect
4. Support > Disk
5. Support > Errors
6. Support > FactoryReset
7. Support > InfraServices
8. Support > InstantAccess
9. Support > iostat
10. Support > LogBrowser
11. Support > Logs
12. Support > Maintenance
13. Support > Messages
14. Support > NBDNA
15. Support > nbperfchk
16. Support > NBSU
17. Support > Processes
18. Support > Reboot
19. Support > Service
20. Support > Shutdown
21. Support > Storage Create LogPartition
22. Support > Storage Create NDMPLogPartition
23. Support > Storage SanityCheck
24. Support > Storage Reset
25. Support > System
26. Support > Test
Appendix H. Available commands for a NetBackupCLI user
1. Command
2. Password

Name

Main > Settings > Alerts > Hardware — Set or view a threshold value for the disk space of any partition.

SYNOPSIS

Hardware DiskspaceThreshold Set

Hardware DiskspaceThreshold Show

Hardware CPUIdleThreshold Set

Hardware CPUIdleThreshold Show

Hardware CPUIOWaitThreshold Set

Hardware CPUIOWaitThreshold Show

Hardware DiskSystemSwapThreshold Set

Hardware DiskSystemSwapThreshold Show

Hardware DiskSystemLogThreshold Set

Hardware DiskSystemLogThreshold Show

Hardware DiskSystemRootThreshold Set

Hardware DiskSystemRootThreshold Show

Hardware MemorySwapFreeThreshold Set

Hardware MemorySwapFreeThreshold Show

Hardware MemoryUtilizationThreshold Set

Hardware MemoryUtilizationThreshold Show

DESCRIPTION

You can set a threshold value for a disk space using this command and receive alerts when the disk space of any partition passes this threshold value.

OPTIONS

Hardware DiskspaceThreshold Set value: Set a threshold value for the disk space. The default value for diskspace threshold is 80%. Here, the value variable defines a threshold value for the disk space in the range 1-99 in percent.

Hardware DiskspaceThreshold Show: View the threshold value that is set for your disk space.

Hardware CPUIdleThreshold Set value: Set a threshold value for the CPU idle time.

Hardware CPUIdleThreshold Show: View the threshold value that is set for your CPU idle time.

Hardware CPUIOWaitThreshold Set value: Set a threshold value for the CPU waiting time.

Hardware CPUIOWaitThreshold Show: View the threshold value that is set for the CPU waiting time.

Hardware DiskSystemSwapThreshold Set value: Set a threshold value for disk system swap space.

Hardware DiskSystemSwapThreshold Show: View the threshold value that is set for disk system swap space.

Hardware DiskSystemLogThreshold Set value: Set a threshold value for the disk system logs.

Hardware DiskSystemLogThreshold Show: View the threshold value that is set for the disk system logs.

Hardware DiskSystemRootThreshold Set value: Set a threshold value for the disk system root.

Hardware DiskSystemRootThreshold Show: View the threshold value that is set for your disk system root.

Hardware MemorySwapFreeThreshold Set value: Set a threshold value for free memory swap space.

Hardware MemorySwapFreeThreshold Show: View the threshold value that is set for free memory swap space.

Hardware MemoryUtilizationThreshold Set value: Set a threshold value for the memory utilization.

Hardware MemoryUtilizationThreshold Show: View the threshold value that is set for your memory utilization.

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