Veritas Appliance Management Guide
- Introduction
- Managing an AMS
- About configuring an AMS
- Configuring NetBackup appliances as AMS
- Configuring AMS on NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Configuring AMS as a container
- Unconfiguring AMS on NetBackup appliances
- Unconfiguring AMS as a container
- About the AMS user role on NetBackup appliances
- Granting the AMS role to a user or a user group on NetBackup appliances
- Adding a user or user group to an AMS container
- About collecting AMS logs
- Using the Appliance Management Console
- Managing appliances
- Viewing the appliance details
- Rebooting an appliance
- Viewing performance charts for appliance
- Exporting the appliance performance data
- Viewing the capacity utilization of an appliance
- Viewing the capacity utilization of multiple appliances
- Adding appliances to the Appliance Management Console
- Removing one or more agents from the Appliance Management Console
- About managing appliance software upgrades
- Updating firmware on NetBackup appliances
- Running hardware tests on NetBackup appliances
- Managing EEBs and other add-ons
- About staging packages
- About managing services on NetBackup appliances
- Installing maintenance release and security patch packages on NetBackup appliances
- Monitoring activities and events
- Managing the repository
- Applying management updates
- Index
Logging on to the Appliance Management Console
You must do the following before you can access the Appliance Management Console:
Configure an AMS
Grant AMS role to a user on the AMS
See About the AMS user role on NetBackup appliances.
See Granting the AMS role to a user or a user group on NetBackup appliances.
For Flex appliances, you can access the Appliance Management Console at https://<hostname>, where <hostname> is the hostname of the container.
To access the Appliance Management Console for NetBackup appliances, navigate to the NetBackup Appliance Web Console login page. From this page, you can access the Appliance Management Console and the NetBackup Appliance 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 |
The procedure to access the Appliance Management Console from the login page is described as follows.
To log on to the Appliance Management Console
- 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 or container to identify the device in your network.
- Enter the credentials of a user with an AMS role.
If you are running AMS as a container and have not signed in to the Appliance Management Console, use the following default sign-in information:
Username: admin
Password: P@ssw0rd
You can access the Home page on the Appliance Management Console.