Veritas Access Appliance Initial Configuration and Administration Guide
- Getting to know the Access Appliance
- Preparing to configure the appliance
- Configuring the appliance for the first time
- Getting started with the Veritas Access GUI
- Storage management
- Network connection management
- Configuring network address settings on the appliance nodes
- About the Veritas Remote Management Console
- Monitoring the appliance
- Resetting the appliance to factory settings
- Appliance security
- About Access appliance user account privileges
- About the Access Appliance intrusion detection system
- About Access appliance operating system security
- Recommended IPMI settings on the Access appliance
- Troubleshooting
Configuring DNS and host name mapping on the appliance
The Access 3340 Appliance requires DNS for host name resolution.
The AutoSupport CallHome mail sender requires both forward and reverse DNS resolution of a FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) that corresponds to the IP address assigned to eth1. A unique DNS entry is required for eth1 on each node.
Without these DNS entries, the AutoSupport client cannot send out alert emails and the system health collector cannot work properly.
See Initial configuration requirements.
To configure DNS settings
- Log on to the Access Appliance shell menu on one of the appliance nodes.
- From the Main_Menu > Network view, type the following command to add a DNS name server:
DNS Add NameServer <IPAddress>
Where <IPAddress> is the IP address of the name server. You can add multiple name servers.
- Type the following command to add a DNS search domain:
DNS Add SearchDomain <DomainName>
Where <DomainName> is the target domain for searching. For example:
DNS Add SearchDomain mn.us.company.com
You can add multiple search domains.
- Type the following command to configure the DNS domain name suffix:
DNS Domain <Name>
Where <Name> is the domain name of the DNS server. For example:
DNS Domain mn.us.company.com
- Repeat this procedure on the other node.
To manually add a host name
- Log on to the Access Appliance shell menu on one of the appliance nodes.
- From the Main_Menu > Network view, type the following command to manually add a host name:
Hosts Add <IPAddress> <FQHN> <ShortName>
Where <IPAddress>, <FQHN>, and <ShortName> are the IP address, fully qualified host name, and the short host name of the host.
- Repeat this procedure on the other node.