Veritas Flex Appliance Getting Started and Administration Guide
- Product overview
- Release notes
- Flex Appliance 4.0 new features, enhancements, and changes
- Flex Appliance 4.1 new features, enhancements, and changes
- Flex Appliance 4.2 new features, enhancements, and changes
- Supported update paths to this release
- Operational notes
- Flex Appliance 4.0 release content
- Flex Appliance 4.1 release content
- Flex Appliance 4.2 release content
- Getting started
- Managing network settings for instances
- Managing users
- Overview of the Flex Appliance default users
- Managing Flex Appliance Console users and tenants
- Adding a tenant
- Editing a tenant
- Removing a tenant
- Adding a local user to the Flex Appliance Console
- Connecting a remote user domain to the Flex Appliance Console
- Editing a remote user domain in the Flex Appliance Console
- Importing a remote user or user group to the Flex Appliance Console
- Managing single sign-on (SSO)
- Managing identity providers (IDPs)
- Importing a single sign-on user or user group to the Flex Appliance Console
- Managing user authentication with smart cards or digital certificates
- Changing a local user password in the Flex Appliance Console
- Expiring local user passwords in the Flex Appliance Console
- Unlocking a user account in the Flex Appliance Console
- Removing users from the Flex Appliance Console
- Changing the password policy
- Changing the hostadmin user password in the Flex Appliance Shell
- Changing the sysadmin user password in the Veritas Remote Management Interface
- Managing multifactor authentication
- Using Flex Appliance
- Managing the repository
- Creating application instances
- Managing application instances from Flex Appliance and NetBackup
- Managing application instances from Flex Appliance
- Resizing instance storage
- Editing instance network settings
- Assigning Fibre Channel ports to an instance
- Unassigning Fibre Channel ports from an instance
- Managing application add-ons on instances
- Viewing instance performance metrics
- Clearing a configuration error status on an application instance
- Deleting an application instance
- Upgrading application instances
- Updating an application instance to a newer revision
- About Flex Appliance updates
- Remote replication
- About remote replication
- Pairing appliances for remote replication
- Creating a replica
- Managing remote replication
- Remote replication best practices
- Monitoring remote replication
- Editing the replication network
- Repairing a lost connection between paired appliances
- Pausing and resuming replication
- Resolving discrepancies between an active and a replica instance
- Changing the replication role of an instance
- Unlinking active and replica instances
- Forgetting a paired appliance
- Appliance security
- Monitoring the appliance
- Registering an appliance
- Configuring alerts
- Monitoring the appliance from the System Health Insights portal
- Viewing the hardware status
- Viewing hardware faults
- Viewing system data
- Clearing the hardware status
- Forwarding logs
- Providing access for external monitoring
- Revoking access for external monitoring
- Reconfiguring the appliance
- Reconfiguring the appliance network
- Changing DNS or Hosts file settings
- Shutting down the appliance
- Performing a factory reset
- Performing a reimage
- Recovering storage data after a factory reset or a reimage
- Performing a storage reset
- Removing a node
- Viewing or resetting the storage shelf order on a Veritas 52xx Appliance
- Troubleshooting guidelines
Managing multifactor authentication
Flex Appliance supports multifactor authentication for local, Active Directory (AD), and LDAP users in the Flex Appliance Console and the hostadmin user in the Flex Appliance Shell. Multifactor authentication uses time-based one-time passwords to provide secure authentication. Each user can configure multifactor authentication individually, or a security administrator can enforce multifactor authentication for all console users.
Multifactor authentication does not apply for users who have configured smart card authentication or for SSO users. For SSO users, Veritas recommends that you configure multifactor authentication through the SSO identity provider (IDP).
Note:
AD and LDAP user groups are not supported for multifactor authentication. You can add these users individually so they can configure multifactor authentication, or you can configure authentication with smart cards or digital certificates instead.
See Configuring or reconfiguring multifactor authentication.