NetBackup 9.0 Application Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (2.0)
Platform: Flex Appliance OS
  1. Product overview
    1.  
      Introduction to NetBackup applications for Flex Appliance
    2.  
      About the Flex Appliance documentation
    3.  
      NetBackup 9.0 application new features, enhancements, and changes
    4.  
      Supported upgrade paths to this release
    5.  
      Operational notes
  2. Geting started
    1.  
      Prerequisites before you can create NetBackup application instances
    2.  
      Installing the NetBackup Administration Console and client packages
  3. Creating NetBackup application instances
    1. Creating application instances
      1.  
        Creating a NetBackup master server instance
      2.  
        Creating a NetBackup media server instance
      3.  
        Creating a NetBackup WORM storage server instance
  4. Managing NetBackup application instances
    1.  
      Managing application instances from Flex Appliance and NetBackup
    2. Accessing NetBackup master and media server instances for management tasks
      1. Managing users on a master or media server instance
        1.  
          Adding and removing local users on a master or media server instance
        2.  
          Connecting a remote user domain to a master or media server instance
        3.  
          Changing a user password on a master or media server instance
      2. Running NetBackup commands on a master or media server application instance
        1.  
          Creating a NetBackup touch file on a master or media server application instance
      3.  
        Monitoring NetBackup services on a NetBackup master server instance
      4.  
        Mounting an NFS share on a NetBackup master server instance
      5.  
        Setting environment variables on master and media server instances
      6.  
        Storing custom data on a master or media server instance
      7.  
        Modifying or disabling the nbdeployutil utility on a master server instance
      8.  
        Establishing trust with a NetBackup 7.7.3 master server instance
    3. Accessing NetBackup WORM storage server instances for management tasks
      1. About the NetBackup WORM storage server shell
        1.  
          About the dedupe command
        2.  
          About the retention command
        3.  
          About the setting command
        4.  
          About the support command

Operational notes

This topic explains important aspects of the NetBackup 9.0 application that may not be documented elsewhere in the documentation.

The following list contains the notes and the known issues that apply for this release:

  • The username maintenance is no longer supported on application instances. If an existing user has the username maintenance when you upgrade to this release, that user becomes disabled.

  • When you create a new application instance, the Application instances section of the System topology page may show the instance status as Partially Deleted while the creation is in progress. The Partially Deleted status displays in error and can be safely ignored. You can track the instance creation progress from the Activity Monitor, and the instance status changes to Online when the instance creation has completed successfully.

  • When you create a NetBackup media server instance, the Flex Appliance Console does not prevent entering the same hostname in both the Hostname for NetBackup Media Server and the Master server hostname fields, but that configuration is not supported. You must have a preexisting master server with a different hostname.

  • When you create an instance, if you enter the IP address before you select a network interface, the IP address field displays the following error message:

    "IP address does not belong to the selected network's netmask."

    This message still displays after you select the network interface that corresponds to the IP address. To clear the message, click inside the IP address field and then click or tab outside of it.