Veritas Appliance Management Guide
- Introduction
- Configuring an appliance as an AMS
- Applying management updates on earlier appliance versions
- Managing appliances from the Home page
- Home page
- Viewing the appliance details
- Viewing performance charts for appliance
- Exporting the appliance performance data
- Adding an appliance to the Appliance Management Console
- Removing one or more agents from the Appliance Management Console
- Managing the Repository
- Changing passwords from the AMS
- Managing appliance software upgrades
- Managing EEB installation
- Logging out of the Appliance Management Console
- Using Activity Monitor and Events
Logging on to the Appliance Management Console
You must do the following before you can access the Appliance Management Console:
Set the management role of an appliance as AMS.
Grant AMS role to a user on the AMS
Once you meet these prerequisites, open the NetBackup Appliance Web Console login page on the AMS by using a supported browser and log on as an AMS user to access the Appliance Management Console. The login page can be used for logging on to the Appliance Management Console and also the NetBackup Appliance Web Console. You must enter AMS user credentials to access the Appliance Management Console. If you enter the regular admin credentials on the login page, you can access the NetBackup Appliance Web Console for the specific appliance.
Table: Recommended browsers for Appliance Management Console lists the recommended browsers for accessing the Appliance Management Console.
Table: Recommended browsers for Appliance Management Console
Browser | Supported version |
|---|---|
Mozilla Firefox | 52.0.0 and later |
Google Chrome | 57.0.2987 and later |
Note:
Internet Explorer 11.0 and later versions are also supported.
The procedure to access the Appliance Management Console from the login page is described as follows.
To log on to the Appliance Management Console
Note:
Before logging on the Appliance Management Console, you must set the appliance as AMS. You must also grant an AMS role to a user from the AMS shell menu.
- On a system that has a network connection to the appliance, start a web browser.
Table: Recommended browsers for Appliance Management Console lists the recommended browsers for accessing the Appliance Management Console.
In the web browser address bar, enter the following:
https://host.domain where host.domain is the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the AMS and can also be an IP address.
The hostname is the label that is assigned to your appliance to identify the device in your network.
- Enter the credentials of a user with an AMS role.
You can access the Home page on the Appliance Management Console.
Note:
You must enter AMS user credentials to access the Appliance Management Console. If you enter the regular admin credentials on the login page, you will access the NetBackup Appliance Web Console for the specific appliance.