Veritas Appliance Management Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (4.1)
Platform: NetBackup Appliance OS
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Changes introduced in Appliance Management Server 1.4.2
    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 primary server or media server and AMS on a virtual appliance
    4.  
      Appliance Management Console login and user password change
  9.  
    Index

Viewing the appliance details

The Overview tab displays appliance details like hostname, storage configuration, model, and so on. It also displays the AMS or agent version and the appliance software version along with application information like serial number, role, primary server, and so on. In case of hardware appliances, it displays details like the number of storage shelves or expansion shelves that are attached to this appliance.

You can use the Rack number field to enter details like the physical location of the appliance. You may choose to add other details about the appliance in the Notes field.

The following is a sample view of the Overview tab:

Note:

Currently, information about the storage shelves that are attached to a 5250 appliance cannot be displayed.

Overview Tab

Click Web console to access the NetBackup Appliance Web Console login page for the appliance. The Web console button is only displayed for agents.

Note:

If the agent is on appliance software version 3.1.1 and the model is 52xx, the storage shelf size (capacity) that is displayed on the Overview tab is inaccurate. For accurate information about the storage shelf size, use the Manage > Storage > Show command on the shell menu. To resolve this issue, upgrade the agent to appliance software version 3.1.2 or later.