Veritas Appliance Management Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (3.3.0.1)
Platform: NetBackup Appliance OS
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Changes introduced in Appliance Management Server 1.4.1
    3.  
      About the Appliance Management Console
    4.  
      About the Appliance Management Server
    5.  
      About the Appliance Management Agent
    6.  
      About the AMS and the agent topology
  2. Appliance as an AMS
    1.  
      About configuring an appliance as AMS
    2.  
      Configuring an appliance as AMS
    3.  
      Unconfiguring AMS
    4.  
      About the AMS user role
    5.  
      Granting the AMS role to a user or a user group
    6.  
      About collecting AMS logs
  3. Using the Appliance Management Console
    1.  
      Logging on to the Appliance Management Console
    2.  
      Using the Home page
    3.  
      Changing passwords from the AMS
    4.  
      Limiting the bandwidth used for downloads
    5.  
      Logging out of the Appliance Management Console
  4. Managing appliances from the Home page
    1.  
      Viewing the appliance details
    2.  
      Rebooting an appliance
    3.  
      Viewing performance charts for appliance
    4.  
      Exporting the appliance performance data
    5.  
      Viewing the capacity utilization of an appliance
    6.  
      Adding an appliance to the Appliance Management Console
    7.  
      Removing one or more agents from the Appliance Management Console
    8. About managing appliance software upgrades
      1.  
        Guidelines for multiple appliance upgrades
      2.  
        Upgrading appliance software
    9. Managing EEBs or add-ons
      1.  
        Installing EEBs or add-ons
      2.  
        Uninstalling EEBs or add-ons
    10. About staging packages
      1.  
        Considerations for staging packages
      2.  
        Staging packages for installation or upgrade
    11. About managing services
      1.  
        Requirements for managing services
      2.  
        Starting, stopping, or restarting services
    12.  
      Installing maintenance release packages
  5. Monitoring activities and events
    1.  
      About the Activity Monitor
    2.  
      Accessing the Activity Monitor
    3.  
      Monitoring events
    4.  
      Accessing the MyAppliance portal
  6. Managing the repository
    1.  
      About managing the repository
    2.  
      Guidelines for adding upgrade packages or files to the repository
    3.  
      Accessing the repository
    4.  
      Adding upgrade packages or EEB files to the repository
    5.  
      Removing upgrade packages or EEB files from the Repository
  7. Applying management updates on earlier appliance versions
    1.  
      Supported updates and downloads for for earlier versions of AMS and the agents
    2.  
      Managing AMS updates
    3.  
      Performing automatic or manual agent updates
  8. Running AMS on NetBackup Virtual Appliance
    1.  
      AMS on NetBackup Virtual Appliance
    2.  
      Configuring standalone AMS on a virtual appliance without any NetBackup configuration
    3.  
      Configuring master server or media server and AMS on a virtual appliance
    4.  
      Appliance Management Console login and user password change
  9.  
    Index

AMS on NetBackup Virtual Appliance

Starting with NetBackup Appliance 3.2 (AMS 1.3), you can deploy AMS on NetBackup Virtual Appliances.

You can use this ability to address the following use cases:

Note:

Veritas recommends that you configure the NetBackup master server or media server role on a NetBackup Virtual Appliance. Active Directory support is not available if such a role is not configured.

OVF template

NetBackup Virtual Appliance OVF templates are available for download at:

https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/downloads

Download and use NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server for remote offices and branch offices (ROBO) template, which is the (NetBackup_VA_ROBO_VMware_3.2_EN.ova) file.

System requirements

The system requirements for AMS on NetBackup Virtual Appliance are as follows:

  • A minimum of 16 GB RAM

  • At least 500 GB of storage

  • A physical network connection is required for the transfer of large files (in GBs or larger).

Note:

For details about system requirements and the procedure for deployment, refer to the Veritas NetBackup Virtual Appliance documentation.

Known issue

Sometimes, an appliance that is configured as an AMS may appear twice on the Home page of the Appliance Management Console. You can safely ignore this issue because it does not interfere with the working of AMS. You can click any of the repeated entries to view its details or select any one of them to perform further actions.