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

Patch Management

You can to initiate General Availability, Maintenance Release upgrade, HotFix and Patch Installation to NetBackup and Flex appliances through System Health Insights console.

To initiate update,

  1. Navigate to Update Management > Patch Management.
  2. Click Action menu (three vertical dots) next to Details and click Install Patch.
  3. A verification pop-up will appear. Enter the verification code shared to the registered email address and click Verify and Proceed.
  4. A message informing about OTP verification will appear.
  5. Patch installation will be initiated. Click View Activity Monitor in the message appearing on the top.
  6. There are different operational views for standalone and HA appliances.

    • In case of standalone appliance, the Activity Monitor page will have information about the operation being initiated, its progress and status of that operation.

    • In case of HA appliance, the Activity Monitor page will have information about operations on all nodes. The patch installation will happen one by one and not simultaneously. Once patch is installed successfully on one node, upgrade will be initiated on the next one.

  7. The same functionality can be initiated from the Fleet Management dashboard, where you can trigger multiple patch updates simultaneously

After successfully installing the patch, the status will change to Complete.