Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Decommissioning and Reconfiguration Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (4.1)
Platform: NetBackup Appliance OS

Configuring a primary server to communicate with an appliance media server

For high availability configurations, you must add the host name of the node that you use for the setup procedure.

Before you configure a re-imaged media server appliance, you must ensure that the primary server you plan to use with it is configured. That allows for appropriate communication to occur between the primary server and the reconfigured media server appliance.

The following procedure describes how to configure a primary server to communicate with an appliance media server.

To configure a primary server to communicate with a new media server

  1. Log in to the primary server as the administrator and make sure that the media server appliance name is added to the primary server:

    For an appliance primary server:

    From the NetBackup Appliance Web Console:

    • Click Manage > Additional Servers > Add.

    • In the Appliance Hostname field, enter the fully qualified host name (FQHN) of the appliance media server that you want to add.

    • Click Add.

      If the appliance has more than one host name, you must add all of the names.

    From the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu:

    • From the Main_Menu > Settings view, run the following command:

      Settings > NetBackup AdditionalServers Add media-server

      Where media-server is the fully qualified host name (FQHN) of the appliance media server that is not yet configured.

      If the appliance has more than one host name, you must add all of the names.

    For a traditional NetBackup primary server:

    • Log on to the NetBackup Administration Console as the administrator.

    • On the main console window, in the left pane, click NetBackup Management > Host Properties > Primary Servers.

    • In the right pane, click on the primary server host name.

    • On the Host Properties window, in the left pane, click Servers.

    • In the right pane, in the Additional Servers section, click Add and enter your appliance host name. The appliance host name should appear in the top Additional Servers section.

      If the appliance has more than one host name, you must add all of the names.

    • Click OK and close the Primary Server Properties window.

  2. Open the following ports on the primary server as follows to allow it to communicate with the associated media server:

    • Traditional (non-appliance) NetBackup primary server

      If a firewall exists between this primary server and the media server, open the following ports and make sure to set all of them for bidirectional (inbound and outbound) communication:

      Note:

      You must log in to the primary server as the administrator to change port settings.

      https: 443

      PBX: 1556

      vnetd: 13724

    • NetBackup Appliance primary server

      If this primary server uses TCP, make sure that the IPMI iKVM port 7578 is accessible through the gateway firewall in your lab.

      Additionally, NetBackup ports that are used for NetBackup optional features may not be enabled by default on a NetBackup Appliance. To change NetBackup port settings on the appliance, log in to the appliance shell menu and use the Settings > Security > Port > ModifyNBUPortRange command. For complete details, see the NetBackup Appliance Commands Reference Guide.

  3. Make sure that the date and time of the media server matches the date and time on the primary server. You can use an NTP server or set the time manually.