Veritas Access Appliance Initial Configuration Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (8.0)
Platform: Access Appliance OS,Veritas 3340,Veritas 3350
  1. Getting to know the Access Appliance
    1.  
      About the Veritas Access Appliance
    2. About the Access Appliance administration interfaces
      1.  
        Using the Access Appliance shell menu
    3.  
      About licensing the Access Appliance
    4.  
      Where to find the documentation
  2. Preparing to configure the appliance
    1.  
      Initial configuration requirements
    2.  
      About obtaining IP addresses for Veritas Access
    3.  
      Network and firewall requirements
    4.  
      About network connections for the appliance
  3. Configuring the appliance for the first time
    1. How to configure the Access Appliance for the first time
      1.  
        Configuring the Access cluster on the appliance
  4. Getting started with the Veritas Access GUI
    1.  
      Accessing the Veritas Access web interface
  5. Network connection management
    1. Configuring network address settings on the appliance nodes
      1.  
        Deleting network settings on appliance nodes
      2.  
        About NIC1 (eth0) port usage on the appliance nodes
      3.  
        About IPv4-IPv6-based network support on the Access Appliance
    2. Configuring VLAN settings on the appliance nodes
      1.  
        Viewing VLAN settings
      2.  
        Deleting a VLAN
    3. About the Veritas Remote Management Console
      1.  
        Configuring the IPMI port on an appliance node
      2.  
        Managing IPMI users on an appliance node
      3.  
        Resetting the IPMI on an appliance node
  6. Monitoring the appliance
    1.  
      About hardware monitoring in the Access GUI
    2. About Veritas AutoSupport on the Access Appliance
      1.  
        Setting up AutoSupport on the appliance
      2.  
        Using a proxy server with the appliance
    3.  
      Setting up email notifications on the appliance
    4.  
      Setting up SNMP notifications on the appliance
    5.  
      Testing the appliance hardware
  7. Resetting the appliance to factory settings
    1.  
      About appliance factory reset
    2.  
      Performing factory reset for cluster nodes
  8. Appliance security
    1.  
      About Access Appliance security
    2. About Access appliance user account privileges
      1. Access appliance admin password specifications
        1.  
          Password encryption and handling on the Access appliance
    3.  
      About forced password changes
    4.  
      Changing the Maintenance user account password
    5. About the Access Appliance intrusion detection system
      1.  
        Reviewing SDCS events on the Access Appliance
      2.  
        Auditing the SDCS logs on an Access Appliance
      3.  
        About SDCS event type codes and severity codes on an Access appliance node
      4.  
        Changing the SDCS log retention settings on an Access Appliance node
    6.  
      About the Access Appliance intrusion prevention system
    7. About Access appliance operating system security
      1.  
        Vulnerability scanning of the Access Appliance
      2.  
        Disabled service accounts on the Access appliance
    8.  
      About data security on the Access appliance
    9.  
      About data integrity on the Access appliance
    10. Recommended IPMI settings on the Access appliance
      1.  
        Replacing the default IPMI SSL certificate on the Access appliance

Setting up email notifications on the appliance

The appliance can send email alerts when hardware and software components fail or encounter errors.

To configure email notifications:

  1. Log on to the Access Appliance shell menu.
  2. Enter the following command to set the SMTP mail server:

    set alerts email-smtp smtp-server= smtp-account=

    where smtp-server is the IP address or FQDN of your SMTP mail server and smtp-account is name of the user account that is used to access the SMTP server.

    When prompted, enter the password for the user name if authentication is required to access the SMTP account.

  3. Enter one or both of the following commands to set the email addresses that you want the appliance to send emails to:

    set alerts email-hardware email-address=

    set alerts email-software email-address=

    where email-address is the email address of the appliance hardware administrator and the email address of the appliance software administrator.

    Note:

    Separate multiple email addresses using a semi-colon (;). Do not add a space before or after the semi-colon.

  4. (Optional) Enter the following command to set the email account that you want the emails to originate from (sender email):

    set alerts email-sender-id email-address=

    where email-address is the email address that you want the appliance emails to originate from.

  5. Enter the following command to set the time interval between email notifications:

    set alerts email-notification-interval interval=

    where interval is the time interval in minutes.

  6. Tto verify the appliance email notification settings, enter the following command:

    show alerts email

See Setting up SNMP notifications on the appliance.