Veritas Access Appliance 8.4 Initial Configuration Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (8.4)
Platform: Veritas 3350,Veritas 3340,Veritas 3360
  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
      1.  
        About subscription licensing
    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. Resetting the appliance to factory settings
    1.  
      About appliance factory reset
    2.  
      Performing factory reset for cluster nodes
  7. 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 SDCS event type codes and severity codes on an Access appliance node

Table: SDCS severity codes

Code

Description

Details

C

Critical

Activity or problems that might require administrator intervention to correct.

E

Error

 

I

Information

Information about normal system operation.

M

Major

 

N

Notice

A more serious event than Warning, but less serious than Critical.

Information about normal system operation.

T

Tracking

 

W

Warning

Unexpected activity or problems that have already been handled by SDCS.

Note:

These messages might indicate that a service or application on the appliance is not functioning properly with the applied policy.

Note:

You can also get this list of SDCS severity codes by typing the following command in the Access Appliance shell menu:

show sdcs-audit view severity-codes

Table: SDCS event codes

Code

Description

DAUD

IDS Audit

DFWU

File Watch Unix

DFWW

File Watch Windows

DGEN

Generic Log

DIPS

IPS to IDS Event

DNTL

NT Event Log

DRGW

Registry Watch

DSYS

SysLog

DUC2

Unix C2 Security

DWTM

WTMP/BTMP

MBIN

Server Error

MCOM

Common Status

MCON

Agent Config Status

MEFR

File Received

MERR

IDS Error

MOVR

Agent Override

MREP

File Create

MSTA

Agent Status

MSTD

IDS Status

MSTP

IPS Status

PBOP

IPS Overflow

PCRE

IPS Create

PDES

IPS Destroy

PFIL

IPS File

PMNT

IPS Mount

PNET

IPS Network

POSC

IPS System Call

PPST

IPS PSET

PREG

IPS Registry

TRAC

Tracking/Debugging

Note:

You can also get this list of SDCS event type codes by typing the following command in the Access Appliance shell menu

show sdcs-audit view event-type-codes