System Health Insights User Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (Version Not Specified)
Platform: NetBackup Appliance OS
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      Veritas System Health Insights for Appliance Fleet Management
    2.  
      About Veritas AutoSupport and Call Home
    3.  
      Understanding the System Reliability Scores (SRS)
    4.  
      How the SRS is calculated
  2. Getting Started
    1.  
      Prerequisites
    2.  
      Launching and Accessing System Health Insights
    3.  
      System Health Insights home page
  3. Registering an Appliance
    1.  
      Overview of the appliance registration process
    2.  
      Registering an appliance
    3.  
      Tracking registration and other tasks
  4. Associating the Team, Site, and Contacts with appliances
    1.  
      Associating a Team
    2. Associating a Site
      1.  
        Adding a new site
      2.  
        Associating the new site with the appliance
    3. Associating the Contact(s)
      1.  
        Adding and associating a new contact
  5. Managing the Sites, Contacts, and Teams
    1.  
      Managing sites
    2.  
      Managing contacts
    3. Managing teams
      1.  
        Managing the team as an Administrator
      2.  
        Viewing the team as a Standard or a Read Only member
  6. Searching within System Health Insights
    1.  
      About Searching an appliance
    2.  
      Basic Search
    3. Advanced Search, Filters, and Queries
      1.  
        Query Builder
      2.  
        Advanced Query
    4.  
      Flex Instance Details
    5.  
      Saving a Query
    6.  
      Creating a Query Dashboard
  7. Actions on the Appliance List search results
    1.  
      Common actions on the Appliance List
    2.  
      Bulk Edit Registration Actions
    3.  
      Add or Remove Labels
    4.  
      Managing the data restriction mode for single or multiple appliances
    5.  
      Unregister the appliances
    6.  
      Decommissioning the appliances
  8. Globally accessible menus
    1.  
      Common functions in System Health Insights
    2. Setting Preferences
      1.  
        Global Preference
      2.  
        Saved Queries and Favorites
      3.  
        Table Columns
      4.  
        Manage Alerts
  9. Activity History
    1.  
      Viewing the Activity History
    2.  
      Marking the activities as Favorites
    3.  
      Viewing the Favorites
  10. My Query Dashboard
    1.  
      About 'My Query Dashboard'
    2. Overview
      1.  
        Site Health Summary
      2.  
        Version Insights
      3.  
        Registration Status
      4.  
        Entitlement
      5.  
        Unresolved Events
      6.  
        Recommendations
      7.  
        Call Home status
      8.  
        Capacity Utilization
      9.  
        System Reliability Scores
    3.  
      Appliance List tab
    4.  
      Unresolved Events tab
    5.  
      Recommendations tab
  11. Account Dashboard
    1.  
      About the account dashboard
  12. Appliance Dashboard
    1.  
      About the Appliance Dashboard
    2. Overview cards
      1.  
        System Reliability Score
      2.  
        Flex Instance Status
      3.  
        Storage Utilization
      4.  
        Entitlement
      5.  
        Registration Detail
      6.  
        Call Home Status
      7.  
        Recommendations
      8.  
        Unresolved Events
      9.  
        Labels
      10.  
        Network Summary
      11.  
        Nodes Summary
      12.  
        Disks Summary
    3.  
      Recommendations
    4. Monitoring
      1.  
        Storage
      2.  
        Performance
      3.  
        Services
    5. System
      1.  
        Configuration
      2.  
        Inventory
      3.  
        Events
    6.  
      Upgrade Center
    7. Support
      1.  
        Registration Details
      2.  
        Case History
      3.  
        Access Key
  13. Appliance Update Management
    1.  
      Introduction
    2.  
      Upgrade Readiness Index
    3.  
      Upgrade Center
    4.  
      Patch Management
    5.  
      Monitoring
  14. Security Insights
    1.  
      Introduction
    2.  
      Security controls on an Appliance dashboard
    3.  
      Security Insights summary on an Account or a Query dashboard
    4.  
      Security Insights details on an Account or a Query dashboard
  15. Managing alerts
    1.  
      About managing alerts
    2.  
      Call Home transmission failure alerts
    3.  
      Receiving the Call Home transmission alert Email
    4.  
      System Reliability Score (SRS) alert
    5.  
      Capacity Utilization alert
  16. Frequently Asked Questions
    1.  
      Frequently Asked Questions

About Veritas AutoSupport and Call Home

Veritas AutoSupport is a crucial infrastructure behind the System Health Insights portal that enables monitoring, management, and support of the appliance's health and performance 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The AutoSupport client agent that resides on an appliance, constantly monitors the appliance hardware and software components. When the Call Home feature is enabled on an appliance, the appliance uploads the diagnostic and heartbeat data over SSL-encrypted channels to the Veritas AutoSupport infrastructure.

For more information about the data that AutoSupport collects and how it is sent to Veritas, refer to the Veritas Appliance AutoSupport Reference Guide.

System Health Insights portal then analyzes the appliance Call Home data to provide proactive monitoring insights. It further leverages the telemetry data received from AutoSupport to analyze and interpret how customers configure and use appliances, and suggest where improvements would be most beneficial to appliance performance.

About Call Home

How an appliance transmits the Call Home data to AutoSupport:

  • The appliance Call Home data constitutes of the hardware and software information necessary for monitoring the appliance.

  • The Call Home feature is enabled by default on all appliances. You can enable or disable the Call Home on an appliance as required. For more information, refer to the Enabling and disabling Call Home from the appliance shell menu section in the AutoSupport Reference Guide.

  • When the Call Home feature is enabled, the appliance connects to the Veritas AutoSupport servers through port 443 using the HTTPS protocol to transmit the Call Home data. You can also configure the appliance to use a proxy server within a private network to transmit the Call Home data..

  • There is only outbound communication from an appliance to the AutoSupport servers. So you need to configure special firewall rules for the outbound communication.

More Information

Understanding the System Reliability Scores (SRS)