Veritas Access Appliance Initial Configuration Guide
- Getting to know the Access Appliance
- Preparing to configure the appliance
- Configuring the appliance for the first time
- Getting started with the Veritas Access GUI
- Storage management
- Network connection management
- Configuring network address settings on the appliance nodes
- About VLAN tagging on the appliance
- Configuring static routes on the appliance
- Configuring DNS settings on the appliance
- Configuring host name on the appliance
- About the maximum transmission unit size on the appliance
- About the Veritas Remote Management Console
- Setting the date and time on the appliance
- Monitoring the appliance
- Resetting the appliance to factory settings
- Appliance security
- About Access Appliance security
- About Access appliance user account privileges
- Changing the Maintenance user account password
- About the Access Appliance intrusion detection system
- About Access appliance operating system security
- About data security on the Access appliance
- About data integrity on the Access appliance
- Recommended IPMI settings on the Access appliance
- Troubleshooting
About licensing the Access Appliance
The Veritas Access software on the appliance includes a built-in evaluation license that activates once you complete the appliance initial configuration. This license is a trialware which can be used for 60 days. You have to obtain a perpetual license to use the Access software on the appliance after you complete the initial configuration.
To comply with the terms of the End User License Agreement, you have 60 days to obtain a valid perpetual license key. The administrator and company representatives must ensure that the appliance is entitled to the license level for the products installed. Veritas reserves the right to ensure entitlement and compliance through auditing.
For more information about the Veritas Access product licensing, refer to the Veritas Access GUI Online Help.
If you encounter problems while licensing this product, visit the Veritas licensing Support website.
www.veritas.com/licensing/process
The Veritas Access licensing has a few functional enforcements.
Table: Functional enforcements of Veritas Access licensing
Enforcement | Action |
|---|---|
During Validity | None |
During Grace period | Nagging message (in the GUI only) |
Post Grace Period | Before you restart the node, you can stop the NFS, CIFS, FTP, and S3 services, but you cannot start the services again (even if you have not restarted the node). After you restart the node, the NFS, CIFS, FTP, and S3 services do not come ONLINE on the restarted node. |
If you add the Veritas Access license using the Access GUI:
When a node is restarted after the license has expired, the NFS, CIFS, FTP, and S3 services are stopped on that node. The status of the service appears ONLINE if the service is running anywhere in the cluster, even if it is OFFLINE on this node. Check the alerts on each node individually to see if the service is ONLINE or OFFLINE locally.
You can start, stop, and check the status of NFS, CIFS, and S3 services. You cannot start, stop, or check the status of the FTP service.
You can only provide the license file from the local system, the
scppath is not supported through the GUI.
If you add the Veritas Access license using the Veritas Access shell menu:
When a node is restarted after the license has expired, the NFS, CIFS, FTP, and S3 services are stopped on that node. You can use the support services show command to display the node-wise status of the service.
You can start, stop, and check the status of NFS, CIFS, FTP, and S3 services.
You can add the license using the license add command. The license add command provides support for
scppath as well.The license list and license list details commands provide details of the license installed on each node of the cluster.
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