Veritas NetBackup™ Flex Scale Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (1.3)
Platform: NetBackup Flex Scale OS
  1. Product overview
    1.  
      About Veritas NetBackup™ Flex Scale
  2. Viewing information about the NetBackup Flex Scale cluster environment
    1.  
      About the NetBackup Flex Scale management console
    2.  
      About the Dashboard view
    3.  
      Accessing the NetBackup web user interface on the appliance
    4.  
      Working with NetBackup Flex Scale APIs
  3. NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure management
    1. User management
      1.  
        Considerations for managing NetBackup Flex Scale users
      2.  
        Adding users
      3.  
        Removing users
    2.  
      Directory services and certificate management
    3.  
      Region settings management
    4.  
      About NetBackup Flex Scale storage
    5. Node and disk management
      1.  
        NetBackup Flex Scale network cabling
      2. Adding a node to the cluster using the NetBackup Flex Scale web interface
        1.  
          Considerations for adding a node when disaster recovery is configured
      3.  
        Adding a node using the REST APIs
      4.  
        Replacing a node in a cluster
      5.  
        Starting and stopping nodes
      6.  
        Replacing a disk
      7.  
        Viewing disk details
      8.  
        Viewing node details
    6. License management
      1.  
        Adding or removing storage licenses
      2.  
        Adding NetBackup licenses
  4. NetBackup Flex Scale network management
    1.  
      About network management
    2.  
      Modifying DNS settings
    3.  
      About bonding Ethernet interfaces
    4. Bonding operations
      1.  
        Creating a bond
      2.  
        Modifying a bond
      3.  
        Removing a bond
    5. Data network configurations
      1. Network configuration on plain device (eth5)
        1.  
          Adding a data network
        2.  
          Modifying a data network
        3.  
          Deleting a data network
      2.  
        Network configuration on VLAN (eth5)
      3. Network configuration on bonded interfaces (bond0 on eth5 and eth7)
        1.  
          Adding a data network
      4.  
        VLAN on bond of eth5 and eth7 (bond0)
      5.  
        Support for multiple VLAN when disaster recovery is configured
  5. NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure monitoring
    1. About alert management
      1.  
        Viewing information about alerts
      2.  
        Managing alerts
    2. About event notification
      1.  
        Purging events
    3. About AutoSupport and Call Home
      1.  
        Setting up email alerts
      2.  
        Setting up SNMP alerts
      3.  
        Configuring Call Home settings
    4.  
      Monitoring hardware components
  6. Resiliency in NetBackup Flex Scale
    1.  
      Erasure coding in NetBackup Flex Scale
    2.  
      High availability of the NetBackup master service
    3.  
      NetBackup catalog protection
    4.  
      NetBackup master service catalog protection using checkpoints
  7. Site-based disaster recovery in NetBackup Flex Scale
    1.  
      About site-based disaster recovery in NetBackup Flex Scale
    2.  
      Establishing trust and setting up authentication
    3.  
      Configuring disaster recovery
    4.  
      Managing disaster recovery
    5.  
      Clearing the host cache
    6.  
      NetBackup optimized duplication using Storage Lifecycle Policies
  8. NetBackup Flex Scale security
    1.  
      STIG overview for NetBackup Flex Scale
    2.  
      STIG-compliant password policy rules
    3.  
      Enabling STIG for NetBackup Flex Scale
    4.  
      Viewing the NetBackup Flex Scale STIG status
    5.  
      FIPS overview for NetBackup Flex Scale
    6.  
      Viewing the NetBackup Flex Scale FIPS status
  9. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      Services management
    2. Collecting logs for cluster nodes
      1.  
        Uploading logs to Veritas Support
      2.  
        Downloading logs
    3. Troubleshooting NetBackup Flex Scale issues
      1.  
        If cluster configuration fails (for example because an IP address that was already in use is specified) and you try to reconfigure the cluster, the UI displays an error but the configuration process continues to run
    4.  
      Validation error while adding VMware credentials to NetBackup
    5.  
      NetBackup Web UI incorrectly displays some NetBackup Flex Scale processes as failed
  10. Appendix A. Configuring NetBackup optimized duplication
    1. Configuring a Storage Lifecycle Policy for optimized duplication
      1.  
        Creating a Storage Lifecycle Policy for optimized duplication
      2.  
        Configuring a policy to use an SLP
      3.  
        Updating the policy to reverse the replication direction
  11. Appendix B. Disaster recovery terminologies
    1.  
      VVR technology in disaster recovery
    2.  
      About response fields in the GET disaster recovery API

Uploading logs to Veritas Support

You can share the logs with the Support personnel to help you diagnose problems.

  1. If not already logged in, use any one of the following options to log in using an user account with an Appliance administrator role, which you created when you configured the cluster:

    • Log in to the NetBackup web interface https://ManagementServerIPorFQDN where ManagementServerIPorFQDN is the public IP address that you specified for the NetBackup Flex Scale management server and API gateway during the cluster configuration, and then in the left pane click Appliance management.

    • Log in to the NetBackup Flex Scale web interface https://ManagementServerIPorFQDN:14161 where ManagementServerIPorFQDN is the public IP address that you specified for the NetBackup Flex Scale management server and API gateway during the cluster configuration.

  2. In the left navigation pane click Settings, and then click Diagnostics.

    The existing log packages are displayed under Packaged logs.

  3. Click the package that you want to upload to and click Send.

    On the Send logs dialog box, click one of the following options and click Send.

    • Send to Veritas using call home: If Call Home is configured on your appliance, logs are uploaded with TLS-encryption using HTTPS protocol to the Veritas AutoSupport server.

    • Send using SFTP: Use the SSH File Transfer Protocol to upload the logs. Specify the following details to use SFTP:

      Field

      Description

      Server address

      Remote server name

      Port

      Port number. By default the SFTP server is configured to listen to port 22.

      User name

      User name to authenticate with the server

      Password

      Password to authenticate with the server

      Path

      Location to upload the logs