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

About Access appliance operating system security

The Access appliance runs a customized Linux operating system (OS) provided by Veritas. Each new appliance software release includes the latest appliance OS, Access software, bug fixes, and security patches. In addition to regular security patches and updates,

The appliance OS and software platform include the following security enhancements and features:

  • An updated and trimmed Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)-based OS platform that enables the packaging and installation of all the necessary software components on a compatible and a robust hardware platform.

  • Symantec Data Center Security: Server Advanced (SDCS) intrusion detection software.

  • Regular scans of the appliance with industry-recognized vulnerability scanners.

    Any discovered vulnerabilities are patched in regular releases of the appliance software and (if necessary) with emergency engineering binaries (EEBs). If security threats are identified between release schedules, you can contact Veritas Technical Support for a known resolution.

  • Nonusers and unused service accounts are removed or disabled.

  • The appliance OS includes edited kernel parameters that secure the appliance against attacks such as denial of service (DoS).

    For example, the sysctl setting net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies is added to the /etc/sysctl.conf configuration file to implement TCP SYN cookies.

  • Unnecessary runlevel services are disabled.

    The appliance OS uses runlevels to determine the services that should be running and to allow specific work to be done on the system.

  • FTP, telnet, and rlogin (rsh) are disabled.

    Usage is limited to ssh, scp, and sftp.

  • TCP forwarding for SSH is disabled with the addition of AllowTcpForwarding no and X11Forwarding no to /etc/ssh/sshd_config.

  • IP forwarding is disabled on the appliance OS and does not allow routing on the TCP/IP stack.

    This feature prevents a host on one subnet from using the appliance as a router to access a host on another subnet.

  • The Veritas Access 3340 Appliance Appliance does not allow IP aliasing (configuring multiple IP addresses) on the network interface.

    This feature prevents access to multiple network segments on one NIC port.

  • The UMASK value determines the file permission for newly created files.

    UMASK specifies the permissions which should not be given by default to the newly created file. Although the default value of UMASK in most UNIX systems is 022, UMASK is set to 077 on the appliance.

  • The permissions of all the world-writable files that are found in the appliance OS are searched and fixed.

  • The permissions of all the orphaned and unowned files and directories that are found in the appliance OS are searched and fixed.