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

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

Table: SDCS severity codes

Code

Description

Details

C

Critical

Activity or problems that might require administrator intervention to correct.

E

Error

 

I

Information

Information about normal system operation.

M

Major

A more serious event than Warning, but less serious than Critical.

N

Notice

Information about normal system operation.

T

Tracking

 

W

Warning

Unexpected activity or problems that have already been handled by SDCS.

Note:

These messages might indicate that a service or application on the appliance is not functioning properly with the applied policy.

Note:

You can also get this list of SDCS severity codes by typing the following command in the Access Appliance shell menu:

Main_Menu > Monitor > SDCS > Audit View SeverityCodes

Table: SDCS event codes

Code

Description

DAUD

IDS Audit

DFWU

File Watch Unix

DFWW

File Watch Windows

DGEN

Generic Log

DIPS

IPS to IDS Event

DNTL

NT Event Log

DRGW

Registry Watch

DSYS

SysLog

DUC2

Unix C2 Security

DWTM

WTMP/BTMP

MBIN

Server Error

MCOM

Common Status

MCON

Agent Config Status

MEFR

File Received

MERR

IDS Error

MOVR

Agent Override

MREP

File Create

MSTA

Agent Status

MSTD

IDS Status

MSTP

IPS Status

PBOP

IPS Overflow

PCRE

IPS Create

PDES

IPS Destroy

PFIL

IPS File

PMNT

IPS Mount

PNET

IPS Network

POSC

IPS System Call

PPST

IPS PSET

PREG

IPS Registry

TRAC

Tracking/Debugging

Note:

You can also get this list of SDCS event type codes by typing the following command in the Access Appliance shell menu from the Main_Menu > Monitor > SDCS view:

Audit View EventTypeCodes

More Information

Auditing the SDCS logs on an Access Appliance