Veritas Access Appliance Initial Configuration Guide

To configure the Veritas Access cluster on the appliance

1. Log on to the Access Appliance shell menu of one of the appliance nodes.
2. From the Main_Menu > Manage > Cluster view, type the following command to start the cluster configuration wizard:

   Configure

3. Type yes to continue.
4. Enter a name for the cluster.

   Cluster names should be DNS-compatible. DNS-compliant cluster names should conform to the following naming conventions:

   • Must be at least three and no more than 10 characters long.

   • Allowed characters in a cluster name are lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens 'a-z, 0-9, -'. Any other character is invalid.

   • Must start with a lowercase letter and must not start with a hyphen ('-') or number.

   • Must end with a lowercase letter or a number.

   • Should not be an IP address.

5. Enter the eth1 IP addresses for each node, separated by a space.
6. Type the password of the Maintenance user of both nodes.

   Note:

   The Maintenance user password must be the same on each node or the configuration fails. To protect the security of the appliance, you should change the Maintenance user password of each node before you start the cluster configuration. You cannot change the Maintenance user password after the cluster is configured.

7. Specify whether you want to configure network bonding for the public network interfaces eth4 and eth5. To configure network bonding, type yes and continue to step 8; else type no and go to step 9.

   Note:

   Network bonding can be configured only when you configure the cluster.

8. If you typed yes in step 7, complete the following steps and go to step 11.

   • Specify the mode for the network bonding.

   • If you select mode 3 (balance-xor) or 5 (802.3ad), specify the transmit hash policy to use.

   • Enter the starting IP address from the range of public IP addresses that you had reserved. At a minimum, you need to reserve two continuous public IP addresses.

   • Enter the starting virtual IP address from the range of virtual IP addresses that you had reserved. At a minimum, you need to reserve two continuous virtual IP addresses.

   See About obtaining IP addresses for Veritas Access.

9. Enter the starting IP address of the four public IP addresses that you have reserved.

   For example, if you type 10.182.12.89, the appliance will use 10.182.12.89-92 for public IP addresses.

   See About obtaining IP addresses for Veritas Access.

10. Enter the starting IP address of the four virtual IP addresses that you have reserved.
11. Enter the netmask for the public IP addresses.
12. Enter the default gateway IP address.
13. Enter the DNS server IP address.
14. Enter the DNS server domain name.
15. Enter the console virtual IP address.
16. Review the configuration summary and type yes to continue and begin the configuration.

    If you have configured network bonding, bond0 is created for the public network and the message Public network connection provided by bond0 with subordinate network interfaces is displayed.

    The configuration process can take around 40 minutes to complete.

17. You are prompted to change the password of the admin user account. Type yes to change it.

    Veritas recommends that you change the admin user account's password since it is a known default password. If you do not change this account's password now, you must do it later in the Access shell menu.

18. After the cluster is configured, you are prompted to reboot the cluster to bring up the Access services. Type yes.

    Note:

    If you choose to reboot the cluster later, you can access the cluster but all the functionality might not be supported till all the services are up.