Veritas NetBackup™ CloudPoint Install and Upgrade Guide
- Section I. CloudPoint installation and configuration
- Preparing for CloudPoint installation
- About the deployment approach
- Deciding where to run CloudPoint
- About deploying CloudPoint in the cloud
- Meeting system requirements
- CloudPoint host sizing recommendations
- Creating an instance or preparing the physical host to install CloudPoint
- Installing Docker
- Creating and mounting a volume to store CloudPoint data
- Verifying that specific ports are open on the instance or physical host
- Deploying CloudPoint using the Docker image
- CloudPoint cloud plug-ins
- CloudPoint storage array plug-ins
- NetApp plug-in configuration notes
- Nutanix Files plug-in configuration notes
- Dell EMC Unity array plug-in configuration parameters
- Pure Storage FlashArray plug-in configuration notes
- HPE RMC plug-in configuration notes
- Hitachi plug-in configuration notes
- InfiniBox plug-in configuration notes
- How to configure the CloudPoint storage array plug-ins?
- CloudPoint application agents and plug-ins
- Microsoft SQL plug-in configuration notes
- Oracle plug-in configuration notes
- MongoDB plug-in configuration notes
- About the installation and configuration process
- Preparing to install the Linux-based agent
- Preparing to install the Windows-based agent
- Downloading and installing the CloudPoint agent
- Registering the Linux-based agent
- Registering the Windows-based agent
- Configuring the CloudPoint application plug-in
- Configuring VSS to store shadow copies on the originating drive
- Creating a NetBackup protection plan for cloud assets
- Subscribing cloud assets to a NetBackup protection plan
- About snapshot restore
- Restore requirements and limitations for Microsoft SQL Server
- Restore requirements and limitations for Oracle
- Restore requirements and limitations for MongoDB
- Steps required before restoring SQL AG databases
- Recovering a SQL database to the same location
- Recovering a SQL database to an alternate location
- Additional steps required after a SQL Server snapshot restore
- Additional steps required after restoring SQL AG databases
- SQL snapshot or restore and granular restore operations fail if the Windows instance loses connectivity with the CloudPoint host
- Disk-level snapshot restore fails if the original disk is detached from the instance
- Additional steps required after a MongoDB snapshot restore
- Additional steps required after an Oracle snapshot restore
- Additional steps required after restoring an AWS RDS database instance
- Protecting assets with CloudPoint's agentless feature
- Preparing for CloudPoint installation
- Section II. CloudPoint maintenance
Registering the Linux-based agent
Verify the following before you register the Linux-based agent:
Ensure that you have downloaded and installed the agent on the application host.
Ensure that you have root privileges on the Linux instance.
If the CloudPoint Linux-based agent was already configured on the host earlier, and you wish to re-register the agent with the same CloudPoint instance, then do the following on the Linux host:
Remove the
/opt/VRTScloudpoint/keysdirectory from the Linux host.Type the following command on the host where the agent is running:
# sudo rm -rf /opt/VRTScloudpoint/keys
If the CloudPoint Linux-based agent was already registered on the host earlier, and you wish to register the agent with a different CloudPoint instance, then do the following on the Linux host:
Uninstall the agent from the Linux host.
Remove the
/opt/VRTScloudpoint/keysdirectory from the Linux host.Type the following command:
# sudo rm -rf /opt/VRTScloudpoint/keys
Remove the
/etc/flexsnap.confconfiguration file from the Linux host.Type the following command:
sudo rm -rf /etc/flexsnap.conf
Re-install the agent on the Linux host.
If you do not perform these steps, then the on-host agent registration may fail with the following error:
On-host registration has failed. The agent is already registered with CloudPoint instance <instance>.
To register the Linux-based agent
- Return to the NetBackup Web UI, and on the Download agent dialog box, click Create Token.
If you have closed the dialog box, sign in to the NetBackup Web UI again and do the following:
Click Cloud from the left navigation menu, and select the CloudPoint servers tab.
From the desired CloudPoint server row, click the actions button on the right and then select Download agent.
On the Download agent dialog box, click Create Token.
- Click Copy Token to copy the displayed CloudPoint validation token.
The token is a unique sequence of alpha-numeric characters and is used as an authentication token to authorize the host connection with CloudPoint.
Note:
The token is valid for 60 seconds only. If you do not copy the token within that time frame, generate a new token again.
- Connect to the Linux host and register the agent using the following command:
# sudo flexsnap-agent --ip <cloudpoint_host_FQDN_or_IP> --token <authtoken>
Here, <cloudpoint_host_FQDN_or_IP> is the CloudPoint server's Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) or IP address that was specified during the CloudPoint configuration.
<authtoken> is the authentication token that you copied in the earlier step.
Note:
You can use flexsnap-agent --help to see the command help.
CloudPoint performs the following actions when you run this command:
registers the Linux-based agent
creates a
/etc/flexsnap.confconfiguration file on the Linux instance and updates the file with CloudPoint host informationenables and then starts the agent service on the Linux host
Note:
If you encounter an error, check the
flexsnap-agentlogs to troubleshoot the issue. - Return to the NetBackup Web UI, close the Download agent dialog box, and then from the CloudPoint server row, click the actions button on the right and then click Discover.
This triggers a manual discovery of all the assets that are registered with the CloudPoint server.
- Click on the Virtual machines tab.
The Linux host where you installed the agent should appear in the discovered assets list.
Click to select the Linux host. If the host status is displayed as VM Connected and a Configure Application button appears, it confirms that the agent registration is successful.
- This completes the agent registration. You can now proceed to configure the application plug-in.
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