Veritas Access Troubleshooting Guide

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Product(s): Access (7.4.2)
Platform: Linux
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      About troubleshooting
    2.  
      General tips for the troubleshooting process
    3.  
      General techniques for the troubleshooting process
    4.  
      About the support user account
    5.  
      Configuring the support user account
    6.  
      Using the support login
  2. General troubleshooting procedures
    1.  
      About general troubleshooting procedures
    2.  
      Viewing the Veritas Access log files
    3.  
      About event logs
    4.  
      About shell-activity logs
    5.  
      Setting the CIFS log level
    6.  
      Setting the NetBackup client log levels and debugging options
    7.  
      Retrieving and sending debugging information
    8.  
      Insufficient delay between two successive OpenStack commands may result in failure
  3. Monitoring Veritas Access
    1.  
      About monitoring Veritas Access operations
    2.  
      Monitoring processor activity
    3.  
      Generating CPU and device utilization reports
    4.  
      Monitoring network traffic
    5.  
      Exporting and displaying the network traffic details
  4. Common recovery procedures
    1.  
      About common recovery procedures
    2.  
      Restarting servers
    3. Bringing services online
      1.  
        Using the services command
    4.  
      Recovering from a non-graceful shutdown
    5.  
      Testing the network connectivity
    6.  
      Troubleshooting with traceroute
    7.  
      Using the traceroute command
    8.  
      Collecting the metasave image of a file system
    9.  
      Replacing an Ethernet interface card (online mode)
    10.  
      Replacing an Ethernet interface card (offline mode)
    11.  
      Replacing a Veritas Access node
    12.  
      Replacing a disk
    13. Speeding up replication
      1.  
        About synchronizing a replication job
      2.  
        Synchronizing an episodic replication job
    14.  
      Uninstalling a patch release or software upgrade
  5. Troubleshooting the Veritas Access cloud as a tier feature
    1.  
      Troubleshooting tips for cloud tiering
    2.  
      Issues when reading or writing data from the cloud tier
    3.  
      Log locations for checking for cloud tiering errors
  6. Troubleshooting Veritas Access installation and configuration issues
    1.  
      How to find the management console IP
    2.  
      Viewing the installation logs
    3.  
      Installation fails and does not complete
    4.  
      Excluding PCI IDs from the cluster
    5.  
      Cannot recover from root file system corruption
    6.  
      The storage disk list command returns nothing
  7. Troubleshooting the LTR upgrade
    1.  
      Locating the log files for troubleshooting the LTR upgrade
    2.  
      Troubleshooting pre-upgrade issues for LTR
    3.  
      Troubleshooting post-upgrade issues for LTR
  8. Troubleshooting Veritas Access CIFS issues
    1.  
      User access is denied on a CTDB directory share
  9. Troubleshooting Veritas Access GUI startup issues
    1.  
      Resolving GUI startup issues
  10.  
    Index

Configuring the support user account

A Veritas Access user with the Master role can enable, disable, change the password, or check the status of the support user.

The support user account is enabled by default.

To configure the support user account

  1. To enable the support user, enter the following:
    Admin> supportuser enable
Enabling support user.
support user enabled.
  2. To verify that the support user is enabled:
    Admin> supportuser status
support user status : Enabled
  3. To change the support user password, enter the following:
    Admin> supportuser password 
Changing password for support.
Old password: 
New password: 
Re-enter new password: 
Password changed

To disable the support user account

  1. To disable the support user, enter the following:
    Admin> supportuser disable
Disabling support user.
support user disabled.
  2. To verify that the support user is disabled:
    Admin> supportuser status
support user status : Disabled