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Last Published: 2019-11-21

Product(s): Resiliency Platform & CloudMobility (3.4)

Setting up the YUM server

This topic is a part of the main topic that explains the end-to-end process of applying an update to Veritas Resiliency Platform components. To understand the sequence in which the update needs to be applied to various Veritas Resiliency Platform components, you must see:

See About applying updates to Resiliency Platform.

To be able to upgrade the various Resiliency Platform components, you need to have one repository server. The Resiliency Platform updates are added to the repository server and then you can apply these updates to the components.

A virtual appliance for YUM repository server is shipped with Veritas Resiliency Platform. This feature of Resiliency Platform makes it easier to setup a YUM repository server. If you do not use the YUM virtual appliance, you are required to manually install all the required Perl modules on a system to setup a repository server in your environment.

From Veritas Resiliency Platform 3.4 onwards, the Resiliency Platform YUM virtual appliance is shipped along with the latest upgrade bundle. Now, you do not need to setup the YUM repository server by executing commands. After deploying the virtual appliance for YUM server, when you configure the virtual appliance as a YUM repository server, the latest pre-bundled updates are automatically added to the YUM server repository.

You need to manually add the updates to the YUM server repository in the following two conditions:

If you remove the pre-bundled updates from the repository server.
If you want to add any previous version updates to the 3.3 version of YUM repository server.

To manually add the updates to the YUM server repository

Prerequisite
Ensure that the required ports are open:
Download the YUM appliance, deploy, and configure it.
See Downloading the Veritas Resiliency Platform virtual appliances.
See Deploying the virtual appliance through VMware vSphere Client.
See Deploying the virtual appliance through Hyper-V Manager.
See Configuring the YUM repository server.
Download the update bundles and the setup repository bundle:
See Downloading the Resiliency Platform update.
Host the downloaded update bundles and the setup repository bundle on a web server where the URLs of the bundles may be accessible by the wget command.
Do one of the following:
- If YUM server has external access:
  Add the update to the YUM server by running the add-update klish command under manage on the YUM server appliance. Provide the URLs of the update bundle and setup repository bundle as parameters to the add-update klish command:
  manage>add-update vrp_updatebundle_tarGZ_url vrp_setup_repository_tarGZ_url
  Where vrp_updatebundle_tarGZ_url is the accessible URL of the update bundle tar.gz file and vrp_setup_repository_tarGZ_url is the accessible URL of the setup repository bundle tar.gz file.
  You need to run the above command for each update bundle that you had downloaded.
- If YUM server does not have external access:
  See Adding an update to the YUM repository server without external access.

Log into the virtual appliance using admin user. Use the following commands to list the updates, add or remove them:

Command	Purpose
list-updates vrp	To list the updates for Resiliency Platform or IMS The command also provides the information about the update that is to be used for configuring the YUM repository on Resiliency Manager, IMS, or Replication Gateway appliances such as the port, repository path, and the protocol. Example: Manage>list-updates vrp
list-updates datamover	To list the updates for Resiliency Platform Data Mover Example: Manage>list-updates datamover
add-update	To add an update Example: manage>add-update vrp_updatebundle_tarGZ_url vrp_setup_repository_tarGZ_url
remove-updates vrp all	To remove the updates for Resiliency Platform or IMS Example: Manage>remove-updates vrp all
remove-updates datamover all	To remove updates for Resiliency Platform Data Mover Example: Manage>remove-updates datamover all

Note:

A YUM virtual appliance can not be upgraded but you can use YUM appliance of an older version for applying the latest update on the virtual appliances.

After you are done with setting up the YUM repository server and adding the update to the YUM server, you need to assign the repository to the virtual appliances where you want to apply the update. You can either use updates>config-repository klish option or use Resiliency Manager console to assign the repository.

More Information

About applying updates to Resiliency Platform