Veritas Appliance Management Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (2.1)
Platform: Appliance Management Server
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Changes introduced in Appliance Management Server 2.1
    3.  
      Operational notes
    4.  
      About the Appliance Management Console
    5.  
      About the Appliance Management Server
    6.  
      About the Appliance Management Agent
    7.  
      About the AMS and the agent topology
  2. Managing an AMS
    1.  
      About configuring an AMS
    2.  
      Configuring NetBackup appliances as AMS
    3.  
      Configuring AMS on NetBackup Virtual Appliance
    4.  
      Configuring AMS as a container
    5.  
      Unconfiguring AMS on NetBackup appliances
    6.  
      Unconfiguring AMS as a container
    7.  
      About the AMS user role on NetBackup appliances
    8.  
      Granting the AMS role to a user or a user group on NetBackup appliances
    9.  
      Adding a user or user group to an AMS container
    10.  
      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
    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.  
      Viewing the capacity utilization of multiple appliances
    7.  
      Adding appliances to the Appliance Management Console
    8.  
      Removing one or more agents from the Appliance Management Console
    9. About managing appliance software upgrades
      1.  
        Upgrading NetBackup appliance software
    10.  
      Updating firmware on NetBackup appliances
    11.  
      Running hardware tests on NetBackup appliances
    12. Managing EEBs and other add-ons
      1.  
        Installing add-ons
      2.  
        Uninstalling add-ons
    13. About staging packages
      1.  
        Considerations for staging packages
      2.  
        Staging packages for installation or upgrade
    14. About managing services on NetBackup appliances
      1.  
        Starting, stopping, or restarting services
    15.  
      Installing maintenance release and security patch packages on NetBackup appliances
  5. Monitoring activities and events
    1.  
      Accessing the Activity Monitor
    2.  
      Monitoring events
    3.  
      Accessing the NetInsights Console
  6. Managing the repository
    1.  
      About managing the repository
    2.  
      Guidelines for adding packages or files to the repository
    3.  
      Accessing the repository
    4.  
      Adding packages or files to the repository
    5.  
      Removing packages or files from the repository
  7. Applying management updates
    1.  
      Upgrading the AMS and the agents on NetBackup appliances
    2.  
      Managing AMS updates on NetBackup appliances
    3.  
      Performing automatic or manual agent updates on NetBackup appliances
    4.  
      Updating an AMS container
  8.  
    Index

Updating an AMS container

The appliance management package includes fixes and new features for the Appliance Management Server. Use the following procedure to replace an AMS container with a newer version of the container.

To replace an AMS container

  1. Download the AMS container image file for the version that you want to update to from the Veritas Download Center.
  2. From the server where your container is located, run the following command to stop and remove the container:

    docker rm -f <container name or ID>

    You can find the container name or ID under the docker ps -a command.

  3. Import the image file with the following command:

    docker load -i <path to image file>

  4. Verify that the image file loaded with the following command:

    docker images

  5. Run the container with the following command:

    docker run -h <hostname> -v <directory>:/data -p 443:443 <image name>:<image tag>

    Where <hostname> is the fully qualified hostname and <directory> is the name of the data directory and must match the directory of your original container. You can find the name of the image file and tag from the docker images command.

    You can also use the following optional parameters:

    • --name <container name> for the name of the container

    • -d for the container to run in the background

    For example:

    docker run --name ams-container -d -h <host name> -v /home/amsdev/amsdata:/data -p 443:443 appliancemgmt:2.1.0

  6. Log in to the Appliance Management Console and make sure that you can see the previously registered appliances. Perform a test operation such as staging to make sure that everything works properly.