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
About configuring an AMS
You can configure any NetBackup appliance or a container as an Appliance Management Server (AMS). In an environment with several appliances, you can configure one AMS that manages multiple agents.
You can also deploy AMS on NetBackup Virtual Appliances. This ability allows you to configure a VM as an AMS but not as a primary or media server, or to configure a VM as an AMS as well as a primary or media server.
If you want to centrally manage multiple appliances in your environment from the Appliance Management Console, you must configure an AMS. To configure an appliance as an Appliance Management Server (AMS), you set the management role of the appliance as AMS. To configure a container as an AMS, you create and configure a new Linux container. To configure AMS on a VM, you deploy an OVA file before you set the management role of the appliance as AMS.
Before you configure an AMS, review the following prerequisites:
Any NetBackup appliance can be set as an AMS. The appliance must be configured.
Veritas recommends that you configure the NetBackup primary server or media server role on a NetBackup Virtual Appliance to access Active Directory support.
You must configure AMS as a container to manage Flex appliances.
You can either set the management role of an appliance as AMS or agent, but not both.
External certificates are not supported on the AMS.
If you change the hostname of the AMS, then all the agents that were already registered must be added again. Similarly, if you change the hostname of an agent, then the agent must be added again to the AMS.
NetBackup appliances earlier than version 4.0.1 that have FIPS enabled are not supported.
Use the following procedures to configure an AMS:
Table: Configuring an AMS
Sequence | Description | Link to topic |
|---|---|---|
1 | Configure a NetBackup appliance, NetBackup Virtual Appliance, or container | See Configuring NetBackup appliances as AMS. |
2 | Grant the AMS role to a user or a user group, or create a new user. | See Granting the AMS role to a user or a user group on NetBackup appliances. |
3 | Access the Appliance Management Console. | |
4 | Add the appliances that you want to manage. |