Veritas Appliance Management Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (3.3.0.1)
Platform: NetBackup Appliance OS
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Changes introduced in Appliance Management Server 1.4.1
    3.  
      About the Appliance Management Console
    4.  
      About the Appliance Management Server
    5.  
      About the Appliance Management Agent
    6.  
      About the AMS and the agent topology
  2. Appliance as an AMS
    1.  
      About configuring an appliance as AMS
    2.  
      Configuring an appliance as AMS
    3.  
      Unconfiguring AMS
    4.  
      About the AMS user role
    5.  
      Granting the AMS role to a user or a user group
    6.  
      About collecting AMS logs
  3. Using the Appliance Management Console
    1.  
      Logging on to the Appliance Management Console
    2.  
      Using the Home page
    3.  
      Changing passwords from the AMS
    4.  
      Limiting the bandwidth used for downloads
    5.  
      Logging out of the Appliance Management Console
  4. Managing appliances from the Home page
    1.  
      Viewing the appliance details
    2.  
      Rebooting an appliance
    3.  
      Viewing performance charts for appliance
    4.  
      Exporting the appliance performance data
    5.  
      Viewing the capacity utilization of an appliance
    6.  
      Adding an appliance to the Appliance Management Console
    7.  
      Removing one or more agents from the Appliance Management Console
    8. About managing appliance software upgrades
      1.  
        Guidelines for multiple appliance upgrades
      2.  
        Upgrading appliance software
    9. Managing EEBs or add-ons
      1.  
        Installing EEBs or add-ons
      2.  
        Uninstalling EEBs or add-ons
    10. About staging packages
      1.  
        Considerations for staging packages
      2.  
        Staging packages for installation or upgrade
    11. About managing services
      1.  
        Requirements for managing services
      2.  
        Starting, stopping, or restarting services
    12.  
      Installing maintenance release packages
  5. Monitoring activities and events
    1.  
      About the Activity Monitor
    2.  
      Accessing the Activity Monitor
    3.  
      Monitoring events
    4.  
      Accessing the MyAppliance portal
  6. Managing the repository
    1.  
      About managing the repository
    2.  
      Guidelines for adding upgrade packages or files to the repository
    3.  
      Accessing the repository
    4.  
      Adding upgrade packages or EEB files to the repository
    5.  
      Removing upgrade packages or EEB files from the Repository
  7. Applying management updates on earlier appliance versions
    1.  
      Supported updates and downloads for for earlier versions of AMS and the agents
    2.  
      Managing AMS updates
    3.  
      Performing automatic or manual agent updates
  8. Running AMS on NetBackup Virtual Appliance
    1.  
      AMS on NetBackup Virtual Appliance
    2.  
      Configuring standalone AMS on a virtual appliance without any NetBackup configuration
    3.  
      Configuring master server or media server and AMS on a virtual appliance
    4.  
      Appliance Management Console login and user password change
  9.  
    Index

About managing services

The Manage Services page lets you start, stop, or restart certain services on an appliance. Each task of the workflow is listed at the top of the page. After you complete a task and move to the next one, the page refreshes with the details and the column headings that pertain to the next step.

The details and column headings for each task on the Manage Services page are as follows:

  1. Confirm appliance selection

    • Selected appliances (n) The host name of each appliance and the total number of selected appliances.

    • Version The current software version on the selected appliance.

  2. Select action and service

    • Action type selection The action to be performed: Start, Stop, or Restart.

    • {OPTION 2} Service type selection The type of service to be started, stopped, or restarted: NetBackup services, Appliance infrastructure services, or a specific service that you mention by its name. You cannot start or stop an individual service, but you can restart a single service at a time by specifying its name.

      If any selected services are already started or stopped, and you select Start or Stop, for those services respectively, no action is taken. Information messages are logged and displayed in the Activity Monitor accordingly.

      The Appliance Management Console does not let you restart any appliance infrastructure services if the appliance that you selected is registered as AMS and not as an agent. Similarly, it does not let you restart amsagent service as well.

  3. Confirm and submit

    • Hostname The host name of each appliance and the total number of listed appliances.

    • Version The current software version of the appliance.

    • Selected action and service The name of the specified services and the action to be performed on those services.