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Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2019-06-24

Product(s): Appliances (3.0)

Platform: NetBackup Appliance OS

Monitor > Hardware options

Monitoring the hardware components of your appliance is important for the correct functioning of the appliance.

The Monitor > Hardware page on the NetBackup Appliance Web Console lets you monitor the hardware, the storage devices, and all of the components that are associated with them. If Call Home is enabled, this information is also automatically sent to Veritas Support in the case of a serviceable event. The hardware monitoring information allows Veritas to provide proactive service and helps lead to a faster resolution of any hardware issues.

Using hardware monitoring, you can monitor the appliance hardware and storage components that are listed in the following tables:

Table: Hardware components monitored in 52xx appliances

Appliance	Disk, RAID, Fan, Power Supply, CPU, Temperature, Fibre Channel HBA, PCI, Network Card, Adapter
Storage shelf	Disk, Fan, Power Supply, Temperature

Figure: Hardware components monitored in 52xx series appliances

Table: Hardware components monitored in the 53xx appliance

Appliance	Disk, RAID, Fan, Power Supply, CPU, Temperature, Fibre Channel HBA, PCI, Network Card, Storage Connections
Primary storage shelf	Disk, Fan, Battery Backup Unit (BBU), Controller, Volume, Volume Group, Power Supply, Temperature
Expansion storage shelf	Disk, Fan, Power Supply, Temperature

Figure: Hardware components monitored in the 53xx appliance

The left pane of the Monitor > Hardware page lists Appliance and Storage. The right pane displays the Summary of components for the appliance and for the attached storage. The storage devices can include a 52xx storage shelf, a 53xx primary storage shelf, or a 53xx expansion storage shelf. Click on any of the components for further information, including health status and any errors or warnings.

The information that is displayed is generated from the last Call Home heartbeat. You can click the refresh icon to get the latest hardware information:

Interpreting errors or warnings

When any of the hardware components in the appliance report errors or warnings, the component icon is highlighted and marked with a number. If the hardware icon is highlighted in red, it denotes an error state and if it is highlighted in yellow, it denotes a warning. The number denotes the number of errors or warnings that the hardware component encounters.

To get more information about the hardware health status, click the hardware component icon. Clicking a hardware component opens a pop-up window that displays information about the health status of the hardware component.

Monitoring storage connections

On a 5330 appliance, you can view the connections between hardware components to check the connection status. Click Storage Connections under Summary of components for appliance. The following pop-up window appears:

Click on the cables between the hardware components to see an overview of the connections between the appliance, the primary shelf, and the expansion shelf.

You can find more information on cable connections in the NetBackup Appliance Hardware Installation Guide.

Flashing a beacon

On a 52xx appliance, the Disk component for the appliance and the storage shelf includes an option to flash a beacon. The beacon helps to locate a disk within the 52xx appliance or the storage shelf.

On a 5330 appliance, the Disk component for the appliance includes an option to flash a beacon. The beacon helps to locate a disk on the 5330 compute node.

Note:

For a 5330 appliance, the beacon option is available only for the disks on the compute node. It is not available for the disks on primary shelf or the expansion shelf.

To flash a beacon from the Monitor > Hardware page

Do the following based on the appliance model:
- For a 52xx appliance, click the Disk icon under Summary of components for appliance or Summary of components for storage shelf.
- For a 5330 appliance, click the Disk icon under the Summary of components for appliance.
In the pop-up window that appears, select the disk ID that you want to flash and click Beacon.
To flash multiple beacons at once, hold down the Shift and the Ctrl keys on the keyboard and click on each of the disks that you want to locate. When all of your chosen disks are highlighted, click Beacon.
A pop-up window appears with the following message:
```
Enter the duration in minutes (from 1 to 300) for which the disk drive
 light should flash: (in minutes)
```
Provide the duration for which you want the disk to flash the beacon light. After you have entered the duration (in minutes), click OK.
The selected beacon flashes for the specified time. When the action is complete, the Beacon pop-up window updates with the result.