Veritas NetBackup™ 52xx Appliance Initial Configuration Guide

Overview of the initial configuration pages in the NetBackup Appliance Web Console

The NetBackup Appliance Web Console lets you perform the initial configuration through a series of pages where you enter the appropriate information. The following shows each page along with a brief description of the required information.

This page appears when you log on to an appliance that is not configured. It provides a short summary of the necessary information for the initial configuration.

Figure: Welcome to Appliance Setup page

This page is used to enter your corporate network information. The upper table contains tabs for entering the Interface Properties and the Routing Properties information. The lower table contains drop down tabs that expand to enter the Create Bond, Tag VLAN, and Add Static Route information.

Figure: Network Configuration page

This page is used to enter the host identification information for this appliance. The appliance host name (FQDN and short name), the IP address, and the domain name are all required.

Figure: Host Configuration page

This page is used to change the password for this appliance server. Veritas recommends that you change the factory default password to a high security password when you perform the initial configuration.

Figure: Password change page

This page is used to set the date, the time, and the time zone for the appliance location.

Figure: Date & Time page

This page is used to configure system alerts and the Call Home feature for reporting problems.

Figure: Alerting and Call Home page

This page provides a link to the MyAppliance portal. Register your appliance on the portal to make sure that you are alerted to product updates and other important updates about your appliance.

Figure: Registration page

This page is used to select the role for the appliance as either a master server or a media server. When you select Master, no further action is required. When you select Media, the page content changes to let you identify the associated master server (see Figure: Appliance Role Configuration -Media page).

This page is used to select the role for the appliance as either a master server or a media server. When you select Master, you are required to provide a Smart Meter Customer Registration Key as described in the displayed instructions. This key enables the Smart Meter functionality that helps you manage your NetBackup environment more efficiently. For more information about Smart Meter, see the Veritas Smart Meter Getting Started Guide.

Figure: Appliance Role Configuration -Master page

Figure: Appliance Role Configuration -Master page

When you select Media, a description of prerequisites appears, along with a data entry field to enter the name of the associated master server.

Figure: Appliance Role Configuration -Media page

After entering the master server name that you select to use with this media server, one of the following certificate deployment scenarios appears:

Master server that uses an external CA and its own internal certificate:

Master server that uses an external CA only:

Master server that uses a NetBackup CA only:

The NetBackup Catalog tab on this page is used to set the size of the NetBackup catalog. This tab appears only when you select Master for the appliance role.

Figure: Storage Configuration page - NetBackup Catalog

The AdvancedDisk tab on this page is used to allocate storage space for the AdvancedDisk partition and to name the storage unit and the disk pool.

Figure: Storage Configuration page - AdvancedDisk

The MSDP tab on this page is used to allocate storage space for the Media Server Deduplication Pool partition and to name the storage unit and the disk pool.

Figure: Storage Configuration page - MSDP