Veritas Appliance Management Guide
- Introduction
- Appliance as an AMS
- Using the Appliance Management Console
- Managing appliances from the Home page
- Viewing the appliance details
- Rebooting an appliance
- Viewing performance charts for appliance
- Exporting the appliance performance data
- Viewing the capacity utilization of an appliance
- Adding an appliance to the Appliance Management Console
- Removing one or more agents from the Appliance Management Console
- About managing appliance software upgrades
- Managing EEBs or add-ons
- About staging packages
- About managing services
- Installing maintenance release packages
- Monitoring activities and events
- Managing the repository
- Applying management updates on earlier appliance versions
- Running AMS on NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Index
About managing appliance software upgrades
The Upgrade software page lets you manage and deploy software upgrades for multiple appliances, simultaneously.
Note:
The Appliance Management Console does not support upgrades for the appliances (nodes) in a high availability (HA) setup. To upgrade these appliances, use the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu.
Note:
After you upgrade an appliance from NetBackup Appliance 2.7.3 to a later version, AMS requires you to re-register the appliance.
The top of the page provides a description of each required task. As you complete a task and continue to the next one, the page refreshes with details and new column headings for the next step.
The following describes the details column headings for each task:
Confirm appliance selection
Selected appliances (n) The host name of each appliance and the total number of selected appliances.
Role The configured role for the selected appliance.
Master The name of the associated master server for the selected appliance.
Version The current software version on the selected appliance.
Select upgrade package
Applicable packages The full name of each compatible upgrade package that resides in the repository.
Type The package type; Upgrade.
Version The software version of each listed upgrade package.
Note:
To upgrade appliances to NetBackup 3.2 or later, the Appliance Upgrade Readiness Analyzer package must be added to the AMS repository along with the update package. AMS displays an error message if it does not file the analyzer package when you begin to upgrade an appliance.
Check readiness
Selected appliances (n) The host name of each appliance and the total number of selected appliances.
Version The current software version on the selected appliance.
Selected package The name of the selected upgrade package for the appliance.
Status The progress of the readiness check and the result after completion.
Additional requirements Any requirements that are needed for a specific appliance, before the upgrade. Click to see the details.
Additional requirements
Appliances with additional requirements (n) The host name of the affected appliance and the total number of affected appliances.
Master The name of the associated master server for the selected appliance.
Requirements (confirmation) A description of any required tasks to perform before the upgrade.
Requirements (input) A data entry field to provide any required information.
Start upgrades
Selected appliances (n) The host name of each appliance and the total number of listed appliances.
Version The current software version of the appliance.
Selected package The name of the selected upgrade package for the appliance.
