Veritas Access Appliance Initial Configuration and Administration Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (7.3.2)
Platform: 3340
  1. Getting to know the Access Appliance
    1.  
      About the Veritas Access Appliance
    2. About the Access Appliance administration interfaces
      1.  
        Using the Access Appliance shell menu
    3.  
      About licensing the Access Appliance
    4. Where to find the documentation
      1.  
        Changes in the Access Appliance document revision
  2. Preparing to configure the appliance
    1.  
      Initial configuration requirements
    2.  
      About obtaining IP addresses for Veritas Access
    3.  
      Network and firewall requirements
  3. Configuring the appliance for the first time
    1. How to configure the Access Appliance for the first time
      1.  
        Configuring the Access cluster on the appliance
  4. Getting started with the Veritas Access GUI
    1.  
      Where to find the Veritas Access GUI
    2. About the Veritas Access 3340 Appliance
      1.  
        Configuring the storage
      2.  
        Configuring an S3 server
      3.  
        Activating an LTR policy
      4.  
        Generating S3 keys
      5.  
        Provisioning the storage
  5. Storage management
    1.  
      About the appliance storage
    2.  
      Viewing the storage on the appliance
    3.  
      Scanning the storage on the appliance
  6. Network connection management
    1. Configuring network address settings on the appliance nodes
      1.  
        About NIC1 (eth0) port usage on the appliance nodes
    2.  
      About VLAN tagging on the appliance
    3.  
      Configuring static routes on the appliance
    4.  
      Configuring DNS and host name mapping on the appliance
    5.  
      About the maximum transmission unit size on the appliance
    6. About the Veritas Remote Management Console
      1.  
        Configuring the IPMI port on an appliance node
      2.  
        Managing IPMI users on an appliance node
      3.  
        Resetting the IPMI on an appliance node
    7.  
      Setting the date and time on the appliance
  7. Monitoring the appliance
    1.  
      About hardware monitoring in the Access GUI
    2. About Veritas AutoSupport on the Access Appliance
      1.  
        Setting up AutoSupport on the appliance
      2.  
        Using a proxy server with the appliance
    3.  
      Setting up email notifications on the appliance
    4.  
      Setting up SNMP notifications on the appliance
    5.  
      Testing the appliance hardware
  8. Resetting the appliance to factory settings
    1.  
      About appliance factory reset
    2.  
      Performing a single node factory reset
    3.  
      Performing a full appliance cluster factory reset
  9. Appliance security
    1.  
      About Access Appliance security
    2. About Access appliance user account privileges
      1. Access appliance admin password specifications
        1.  
          Password encryption and handling on the Access appliance
    3.  
      Changing the Maintenance user account password
    4. About the Access Appliance intrusion detection system
      1.  
        Reviewing SDCS events on the Access Appliance
      2.  
        Auditing the SDCS logs on an Access Appliance
      3.  
        About SDCS event type codes and severity codes on an Access appliance node
      4.  
        Changing the SDCS log retention settings on an Access appliance node
    5. About Access appliance operating system security
      1.  
        Vulnerability scanning of the Access Appliance
      2.  
        Disabled service accounts on the Access appliance
    6.  
      About data security on the Access appliance
    7.  
      About data integrity on the Access appliance
    8. Recommended IPMI settings on the Access appliance
      1.  
        Replacing the default IPMI SSL certificate on the Access appliance
  10. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      About appliance log files
    2.  
      Viewing log files using the Support command
    3.  
      Gathering device logs with the DataCollect command

Auditing the SDCS logs on an Access Appliance

There are several ways to audit the SDCS logs on a Veritas Access Appliance node.

Basic search

To do a basic SDCS log search

  1. Log on to the Access Appliance shell menu.
  2. From the Main_Menu > Monitor > SDCS view, enter the following command:

    Audit Search <term>

    Where <term> is a word or name that you want to search in the logs for.

Filter by individual attribute

SDCS events have three main attributes:

  • Date

  • Severity

  • Event type

You can filter the SDCS logs by each individual attribute.

To filter SDCS log entries by date

  1. Log on to the Access Appliance shell menu.
  2. Go to the Main_Menu > Monitor > SDCS view.
  3. (Optional) Enter the following command to view all of the events that occurred on a specific day:

    Audit View Date <ToDate>

    Where <ToDate> is the day in the DD/MM/YYYY format.

  4. (Optional) Enter the following command to view all of the events that occurred during a specific period of time:

    Audit View Date <ToDate>[-hh:mm:ss] [<FromDate>[-hh:mm:ss]]

    Where <ToDate>[-hh:mm:ss] is the later date/time and [<FromDate>[-hh:mm:ss]] is the earlier date/time. For example:

    Audit View Date 05/25/2016-13:00:00 05/25/2016-12:00:00

To filter SDCS log events by severity

  1. Log on to the Access Appliance shell menu.
  2. From the Main_Menu > Monitor > SDCS view, enter the following command:

    Audit View Severity <SeverityCode>

    Where <SeverityCode> is the one letter code of the severity type that you want to filter by.

    See About SDCS event type codes and severity codes on an Access appliance node.

To filter SDCS log entries by type

  1. Log on to the Access Appliance shell menu.
  2. From the Main_Menu > Monitor > SDCS view, enter the following command:

    Audit View EventType <TypeCode>

    Where <TypeCode> is the four letter code of the event type that you want to filter by.

    See About SDCS event type codes and severity codes on an Access appliance node.

Filter using multiple attributes

The best way to search for a specific type of SDCS event from a particular period of time is to use the Audit View Filter command.

To filter SDCS log entries by date

  1. Log on to the Access Appliance shell menu.
  2. From the Main_Menu > Monitor > SDCS view, enter the following command:

    Audit View Filter <SeverityCode> <TypeCode> <ToDate>[-hh:mm:ss] [<FromDate>[-hh:mm:ss]] <Search_yes/no>

    • <SeverityCode>

      The one letter code of the severity type that you want to filter by. Enter ALL if you want to include all severity codes in your filter.

    • <TypeCode>

      The four letter code of the event type that you want to filter by. Enter ALL if you want to include all event type codes in your filter.

    • <ToDate>[-hh:mm:ss] [<FromDate>[-hh:mm:ss]]

      Where <ToDate>[-hh:mm:ss] is the later date/time and [<FromDate>[-hh:mm:ss]] is the earlier date/time. Use the DD/MM/YYYY date format.

      To filter events for a specific day, use <ToDate>[-hh:mm:ss] and type NULL for [<FromDate>[-hh:mm:ss]].

      To filter all events after a specific date/time, use [<FromDate>[-hh:mm:ss]] and type NULL for <ToDate>[-hh:mm:ss]

    • <Search_yes/no>

      Enter yes if you want to include a search term. Otherwise, enter no.

    For example:

    Audit View Filter C ALL 05/26/2016-14:00:00 05/25/2016-13:00:00 no

  3. (Optional) If you entered yes for <Search_yes/no>, enter the search string when prompted.
Get more details about an event

You can use the Audit View EventID command to get more information about a specific SDCS event that is listed in a search or filter.

To get more details about a specific SDCS event

  1. Log on to the Access Appliance shell menu.
  2. From the Main_Menu > Monitor > SDCS view, enter the following command:

    Audit View EventID <ID#>

    Where <ID#> is the ID number of an event that was listed in your filter or search.