Veritas NetBackup™ Flex Scale Installation and Configuration Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (2.1)
Platform: NetBackup Flex Scale OS
  1. Preparing for NetBackup Flex Scale deployment
    1.  
      Deployment overview
    2.  
      Deployment options
    3.  
      NetBackup Flex Scale configuration requirements
    4.  
      Firewall and network ports requirements
    5.  
      Considerations for using IPv6 addresses
  2. Configuring NetBackup Flex Scale
    1.  
      Assigning a public IP address to network adapter eth1 of a node
    2.  
      NetBackup Flex Scale configuration methods
    3.  
      Configuring NetBackup Flex Scale using the setup wizard
    4. Configuring NetBackup Flex Scale using a configuration file
      1.  
        YML configuration file for deploying NetBackup primary and media servers
      2.  
        YML configuration file for deploying media servers
    5.  
      Changing the maintenance user account password
  3. Troubleshooting NetBackup Flex Scale deployment
    1.  
      NetBackup Flex Scale logs
    2.  
      Connection timeout errors during patch installs, upgrades, and rollback operations
    3.  
      Initial configuration wizard displays a driver node not selected error
    4.  
      Initial configuration wizard displays a license error after successfully configuring the cluster
  4. NetBackup Flex Scale upgrades and patch management
    1. About NetBackup Flex Scale upgrades and EEB
      1.  
        Pre-upgrade steps
      2.  
        Considerations for upgrade when disaster recovery is configured
    2.  
      Performing a patch upgrade using GUI
    3.  
      Installing EEBs using GUI
    4.  
      Performing a patch upgrade using REST APIs
    5.  
      Installing EEBs using REST APIs
    6.  
      About rolling upgrade
  5. Removing NetBackup Flex Scale
    1. About disk erasure
      1.  
        Configuring data erasure
      2.  
        Viewing the data erasure status
      3.  
        Aborting data erasure
    2.  
      About NetBackup Flex Scale node factory reset
    3.  
      Performing a factory reset on a node
  6. Appendix A. Installing NetBackup Flex Scale
    1.  
      About NetBackup Flex Scale software installation
    2.  
      Enabling remote IPMI connections
    3.  
      Setting up the RAID configuration on the nodes
    4.  
      Configuring the BIOS settings on the nodes
    5.  
      Downloading the product installer ISO
    6.  
      Mounting the ISO file on the nodes
    7.  
      Installing NetBackup Flex Scale using the ISO
    8.  
      Installing Emergency Engineering Binaries (EEBs)

Performing a patch upgrade using REST APIs

You can perform a patch upgrade using REST APIs.

To download a patch using REST APIs

  1. (Optional) Upload a patch RPM package file to the cluster. This also downloads the patch directly. 
    POST /api/appliance/v1.0/upgrade/upload

    Usually, the patch size is above 9 GB so uploading a patch takes about 1 hour.

  2. Find the list of all the available patches (downloadable/downloaded/installed).
    GET /api/appliance/v1.0/upgrade/patches
  3. Find the summary of a specific patch.
    GET /api/appliance/v1.0/upgrade/patches/{patchName}
  4. (Optional) Find the directory path where the patch should be placed.
    GET /api/appliance/v1.0/upgrade/path
  5. Download the patch from the SORT server.
    PATCH / api/appliance/v1.0/upgrade/patches/{patchName}
  6. You can find the details of the progress of the patch download using the task ID.
    GET /api/appliance/v1.0/tasks/{taskId}
  7. Install the patch.
    PATCH /api/appliance/v1.0/upgrade/patches/{patchName}
  8. You can find the details of the progress of the patch installation using the task ID.
    GET /api/appliance/v1.0/tasks/{taskId}