Veritas InfoScale™ Operations Manager 7.3.1 Frequently Asked Questions

Installation and upgrade

See the Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager Management Server Installation and Configuration Guide for information on how much space is required for Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager on Management Server and on managed hosts.

Upgrade to Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager 7.3.1 is only supported from Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager 4.1, or later versions. Users of Storage Foundation Manager need to upgrade to Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager 4.1 or later versions, and then upgrade to Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager 7.3.1. Users of Cluster Server Management Console need to start with a fresh installation of Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager.

Veritas Operations Manager 5.0 is the last major version of Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager to support Solaris as a platform for Management Server. Before you upgrade your Management Server to a newer version, you need to migrate to a Management Server on Linux or Windows.

For information on Management Server Migration, refer to the Veritas Operations Manager Management Server Migration Add-on 5.0 User Guide.

The current release of VRTSsfmh package supports upgrades from version 2.x, or later. However, if a host has VRTSsfmh 2.0 package, it is recommended that you upgrade the VRTSsfmh package to 7.3.1 before managing the host using a 7.3.1 Management Server.

Yes. Discovery will still work. However, new Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager features and details are not seen for these managed hosts. In addition, VCS operation support was added only in Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager 3.0, implying that managed hosts also need to be running VRTSsfmh package version 3.0, or later.

Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager suggests the Management Server host name and IP address on the configuration page. You need to verify whether the host name and IP address is accessible from all intended managed hosts.

If you plan to configure Management Server HA in future, you need to use virtual IP and virtual host name while configuring Management Server.

Yes, Management Server HA is supported for Windows Management Server. Currently, Management Server DR is not supported for Windows Management Server.

Yes, all it requires is an operating system that is in the list supported by Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager Management Server. Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager requires a 64-bit operating system for Linux and Windows.

For more information, see the Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager Management Server Installation and Configuration Guide.

The Auto Configure option lets you add a managed host to the Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager Management Server domain using a script and with minimal user interaction. Click Settings, click Host, and click Auto Configure to download the script.

The script can also be created using the gendeploy.pl utility on Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager Management Server. Run the following commands to generate the script:

addvommh.pl is the script name used as an example.

You can copy the script (addvommh.pl) that is downloaded from Management Server or created using gendeploy.pl to all the managed hosts that you want to add to the domain.

After you copy the script, you have to run it on each host. These hosts must have the VRTSsfmh package installed before you run the script.

Run the following command to execute the script:

The gendeploy-generated script (addvommh.pl) has the Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager Management Server host name embedded in it. This is the name used to contact the Management Server during managed host configuration. In case Management Server is not reachable from the managed host by this default name, an alternate hostname/IP address can be specified using the domain option of addvommh.pl. This option is available only for managed host version 4.0RU1, or later. You can use the hostname option of addvommh.pl script to specify an alternate name for the managed host.

The host-mgmt option of the vomadm utility can be used to remove a single host, or multiple hosts, from Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager. It is currently supported only for hosts that are configured as Agents (hosts that have the VRTSsfmh package installed). Run one of the following commands on Management Server:

For more information, see the Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager User Guide.