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

Frequently Asked Questions

  1. Why can't I see my appliance's product details, version, SRS etc.?

    The most common problem could be that your appliance may not be Calling Home to the Veritas AutoSupport servers in an expected, timely manner. Please check that the Call Home feature on your appliance is enabled, and it can connect to the Veritas severs uninterrupted. Ensure that your network firewall is not blocking the connection.

    See About Veritas AutoSupport and Call Home.

  2. Why do I see no or inconsistent entitlement information for my appliance?

    Please contact Veritas Support or your account sales representative for help.

  3. Why did my appliance registration fail and what should I do next?

    An appliance registration task can be marked 'Failed' for various reasons such as network connection problems, backend processes failing to execute the task, processing timeout etc.

    A 'Failed' task will be automatically retried for registration for indefinite times until it receives some definitive response resulting in either a failure or a success status. Hence, a record that was marked 'Failed' earlier could be converted to 'Completed' even after a few minutes or hours, if the processing is successful.

    You can wait for up to 5 to 10 minutes for the task to complete, or can resubmit the appliance for registration.

    See Tracking registration and other tasks .

  4. Do the changes in the appliance registration or un-registration reflect immediately on the UI, and is the newly registered appliance immediately searchable?

    No, it can often take up to 15 minutes for a changed registration status to reflect correctly on the UI even after the corresponding task shows successfully completed on the Registration Task page. Please try searching for a newly registered appliance after approximately 15 minutes.

    See Tracking registration and other tasks .

  5. Can I register the individual nodes of my clustered system?

    Yes, you can proceed with the cluster registration even if you have the details only for a single node of a cluster. Thereafter, when the newly registered node transmits the identification details for the sibling nodes or the cluster, System Health Insights automatically identifies all the nodes and associates them with the cluster.

    However, at least one node must be able to Call Home to the AutoSupport server at least once after registering.

    See Overview of the appliance registration process.

  6. Can I edit the site details after registering an appliance associated with the site?

    You can edit the site details using the Manage Site menu on the left sidebar or the Registration Details tab of an appliance dashboard. However, currently the site name and address can not be edited for a registered appliance.

    See Managing sites.

    See Registration Details .

  7. In case of the chassis replacement, is it required to register the serial number of the new chassis?

    No, in case of chassis replacement, users do not have to take any action.

    System Health Insights automatically identifies the new serial number and reflects it in the portal. The old serial number is still retained in the portal, but it appears with a Chassis Replaced status.

  8. Why can't I see details in Upgrade Center?

    Upgrade Center will display relevant data only if your appliance is NBA 5.1.1 and a separate add-on package is installed on older versions.

  9. How to obtain the serial number/asset tags, and hardware support ID and/or sales order number of an appliance?

    Refer to the following resources:

    How to gather the NetBackup Appliance Serial Number via command line, and physical

    How to retrieve Asset Tags for the HA configuration of NetBackup Applianc

    How to retrieve the Access Appliance Serial Number via command lin

    How to locate the Access Appliance Serial Number physically