Veritas NetBackup™ Flex Scale Installation and Configuration Guide
About NetBackup Flex Scale upgrades and EEB
NetBackup Flex Scale supports software version upgrades. The upgrade operation is supported using both the GUI and RESTful APIs.
Open a web browser and type the following URL in the address bar to sign in to the NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure management console:
https://ManagementServerIPorFQDN:14161
If you are using IPv6 addresses, use the following URL syntax:
https://[ManagementServerIP]:14161
Here, ManagementServerIPorFQDN is the public IP address or FQDN that you specified for the NetBackup Flex Scale management server and API gateway during the cluster configuration.
You can find the RESTful APIs at https://ManagementServerIPorFQDN:14161/swagger/infra/v1.0/
If you are using IPv6 addresses, use the following URL syntax:
https://[ManagementServerIP]:14161/swagger/infra/v1.0/
The GUI supports the following operations:
Check SORT for the availability of major upgrades, and patches. The option shows the details of packages available on SORT.
You can download available major upgrades, and patches from SORT.
The GUI displays the download package progress.
You can upload major upgrades, patches, and EEBs from your local systems.
The GUI displays the details of downloaded and installed major upgrades, patches, and EEBs.
You can delete major upgrades, and patches which are downloaded in the system through the GUI.
You can delete downloaded EEBs which are not installed on the system.
You can install major upgrades, patches, and EEBs only when all nodes are healthy.
You can rollback EEBs from the system only when all the nodes are healthy.
The GUI disables other operations when installation or rollback operations are in progress.
The GUI displays the progress for operations like installation of major upgrades, patches, EEBs, and rollback of EEBs.
Note:
If disaster recovery is configured, make sure that you install the EEBs and patches on the secondary site.