Veritas Appliance Management Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (3.3.0.1)
Platform: NetBackup Appliance OS
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Changes introduced in Appliance Management Server 1.4.1
    3.  
      About the Appliance Management Console
    4.  
      About the Appliance Management Server
    5.  
      About the Appliance Management Agent
    6.  
      About the AMS and the agent topology
  2. Appliance as an AMS
    1.  
      About configuring an appliance as AMS
    2.  
      Configuring an appliance as AMS
    3.  
      Unconfiguring AMS
    4.  
      About the AMS user role
    5.  
      Granting the AMS role to a user or a user group
    6.  
      About collecting AMS logs
  3. Using the Appliance Management Console
    1.  
      Logging on to the Appliance Management Console
    2.  
      Using the Home page
    3.  
      Changing passwords from the AMS
    4.  
      Limiting the bandwidth used for downloads
    5.  
      Logging out of the Appliance Management Console
  4. Managing appliances from the Home page
    1.  
      Viewing the appliance details
    2.  
      Rebooting an appliance
    3.  
      Viewing performance charts for appliance
    4.  
      Exporting the appliance performance data
    5.  
      Viewing the capacity utilization of an appliance
    6.  
      Adding an appliance to the Appliance Management Console
    7.  
      Removing one or more agents from the Appliance Management Console
    8. About managing appliance software upgrades
      1.  
        Guidelines for multiple appliance upgrades
      2.  
        Upgrading appliance software
    9. Managing EEBs or add-ons
      1.  
        Installing EEBs or add-ons
      2.  
        Uninstalling EEBs or add-ons
    10. About staging packages
      1.  
        Considerations for staging packages
      2.  
        Staging packages for installation or upgrade
    11. About managing services
      1.  
        Requirements for managing services
      2.  
        Starting, stopping, or restarting services
    12.  
      Installing maintenance release packages
  5. Monitoring activities and events
    1.  
      About the Activity Monitor
    2.  
      Accessing the Activity Monitor
    3.  
      Monitoring events
    4.  
      Accessing the MyAppliance portal
  6. Managing the repository
    1.  
      About managing the repository
    2.  
      Guidelines for adding upgrade packages or files to the repository
    3.  
      Accessing the repository
    4.  
      Adding upgrade packages or EEB files to the repository
    5.  
      Removing upgrade packages or EEB files from the Repository
  7. Applying management updates on earlier appliance versions
    1.  
      Supported updates and downloads for for earlier versions of AMS and the agents
    2.  
      Managing AMS updates
    3.  
      Performing automatic or manual agent updates
  8. Running AMS on NetBackup Virtual Appliance
    1.  
      AMS on NetBackup Virtual Appliance
    2.  
      Configuring standalone AMS on a virtual appliance without any NetBackup configuration
    3.  
      Configuring master server or media server and AMS on a virtual appliance
    4.  
      Appliance Management Console login and user password change
  9.  
    Index

Installing maintenance release packages

The Maintenance Release page lets you install maintenance releases on multiple appliances, simultaneously.

To install a maintenance release package

  1. On the Home page, select the appliances that you want to install. All selected appliances must use the same software version. After completing the appliance selections, click Manage > Maintenance Release.
  2. On the Install MR package page (1 Confirm appliance selection), review and verify the displayed information for the appliances that you selected on the Home page. If the list is correct, click Next.

    To make any changes, go back to the Home page and make them. Return to this page to verify your selections and click Next.

  3. On the refreshed page (2 Select MR package), click Install to start the package installation and navigate to the Activity Monitor page. The packages that are applicable and available for the NetBackup versions on the selected appliances appear in the Selected package column.

    Note:

    Only one package can be selected.

  4. On the Activity monitor page, expand the row of an appliance to observe the step by step progress of the installation progress.

    AMS performs the following activities sequentially:

    • Downloads the MR package. This step is skipped if the package already exists on the selected appliances.

    • Installs the MR package, which includes a preflight check and a pre-install self-test. A pre-install checkpoint is created, so that if there are any errors during the process, the installation is aborted and the appliance is restored to the checkpoint.

    The state appears as Successful when the process completes.

Limitations

  • Maintenance release packages can be installed using AMS 1.4.1 onwards.

  • A maintenance release package cannot be applied to the AMS appliance itself.

  • The agent version of an appliance must also be upgraded to 1.4.1, otherwise, the following error is displayed on the Activity Monitor after the installation process is initiated:

    V-409-919-1802: The node-update task is not supported for this 
appliance configuration. This problem could be related to older agent 
version. Review the AMS documentation to find out minimum requirements 
for node-update task. Error: Playbook not defined.