Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Administrator's Guide

Notification Interval

Enter the interval for the server to upload alerts to the Veritas Call Home server. Entries must be in increments of 15 minutes.

SNMP Server Configuration

Select one of the following options:

SNMP Server

Enter the SNMP Server host name. You can enter a host name or an IP address to define this computer. The IP address can be an IPv4 or IPv6 address. Only global-scope and unique-local IPv6 addresses are allowed.

Notification of the alerts or traps that are generated in the appliance are sent to this SNMP manager.

See About IPv4-IPv6-based network support.

SNMP Port

Enter the SNMP Server port number. The default port is 162.

SNMP Community

This field is required for SNMP V2 and is optional for SNMP V3.

Enter the community to which the alerts or traps are sent. For example, Backup Reporting Department.

You can enter a value that you configured on your SNMP server. For example, your company name. If you do not expect to disclose your company name, Veritas provides the system-defined values including: admin_group, public, and private. The default is public.

SNMP Username (SNMP V3 only)

Enter an SNMP user name as follows:

Authentication Protocol (SNMP V3 only)

Configure as follows to set the security level:

SNMP Password/Confirm SNMP Password (SNMP V3 only)

Enter a password for the SNMP user as follows:

Enter the same password in the Confirm SNMP Password field.

Encryption Protocol (SNMP V3 only)

Configure as follows to set the encryption policy:

Encryption Passphrase/Confirm Encryption Passphrase (SNMP V3 only)

If you set the Encryption Protocol to use an encryption policy, enter a passphrase for the SNMP user as follows:

Enter the same passphrase in the Confirm Encryption Passphrase field.

SMTP Server

Enter the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) Server host name. Notifications of the alerts that are generated in Appliance are sent using this SMTP server. The IP address can be an IPv4 or IPv6 address. Only global-scope and unique-local IPv6 addresses are allowed.

See About IPv4-IPv6-based network support.

SMTP port

You can select one of the following options:

The default SMTP port number is 25. Encryption is disabled by default.

Encryption

Select Enable Encryption to use a secure connection.

Software Administrator Email

Enter the email ID of the software administrator, to receive software alerts that are specific to the Veritas NetBackup Appliance software. The email ID that you designate receives alerts for the following software conditions:

Hardware Administrator Email

Enter the email ID of the hardware administrator, to receive hardware alerts that are specific to the Veritas NetBackup Appliance hardware. For example, enter hardwareadmin@usergroup.com.

Email Test

A test email is sent to the email address that was configured above. If the test email is not received, follow the error prompts to view the network connections, SMTP settings, and email settings. You can contact your system administrator for more assistance.

Sender Email

Enter the email ID to receive any replies to the alerts or the reports that the appliance sends.

SMTP Account

Enter the user name to access the SMTP account.

Password

Enter the password for the above mentioned SMTP user account.

Enable Call Home

Select this check box to enable Call Home alert configuration.

Enable AutoUpdate for Upgrade Readiness Check

Select this check box to enable automatic updates for the Appliance Upgrade Readiness Analyzer tool (analyzer tool) on the appliance.

Enabling this feature lets you keep pre-upgrade checks up to date and receive accurate upgrade readiness status recommendations through System Health Insights on the NetInsights Console. You can download the latest version of the analyzer tool from the Veritas Download Center. Veritas recommends that you enable AutoUpdate.

Enable Proxy Server

Select this check box to enable proxy.

Enable Proxy Tunneling

Select this check box if your proxy server supports SSL tunneling.

Proxy Server

Enter the name of the proxy server.

Proxy Port

Enter the port number of the proxy server.

Proxy Username

Enter the user name to log into the proxy server.

Proxy Password

Enter the password for the user name to log into the proxy server.