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
About licensing the Access Appliance
The Veritas Access software on the appliance includes a built-in evaluation license that activates once you complete the appliance initial configuration. You have to obtain a license to use the Access software on the appliance after the evaluation period.
You can choose one of the following licensing methods to license the appliance after configuration:
Enter a valid perpetual license key file matching the functionality in use on the systems.
A perpetual license is like a permanent license for using Access.
Enter a valid subscription license key file matching the functionality in use on the systems.
A subscription license is a license with validity of one year.
Continue with evaluation mode, and complete system licensing later.
This license is a trialware which can be used for 60 days.
Configuring the appliance without a license does not eliminate the need to obtain a license. The administrator and company representatives must ensure that the appliance is entitled to the license level for the products installed. Veritas reserves the right to ensure entitlement and compliance through auditing.
To comply with the terms of the End User License Agreement, you have 60 days to either enter a valid subscription or perpetual license key or continue in evaluation mode.
If you encounter problems while licensing this product, visit the Veritas licensing Support website.
www.veritas.com/licensing/process
The Access licensing has a few functional enforcements.
Table: Functional enforcements of Access licensing
Enforcement | Action |
---|---|
During Validity | None |
During Grace period | Nagging message (in the GUI only) |
Post Grace Period | Before you restart the node, you can stop the NFS, CIFS, FTP, and S3 services, but you cannot start the services again (even if you have not restarted the node). After you restart the node, the NFS, CIFS, FTP, and S3 services do not come ONLINE on the restarted node. |
If you add the Access license using the Access GUI:
When a node is restarted after the license has expired, the NFS, CIFS, FTP, and S3 services are stopped on that node. The status of the service appears ONLINE if the service is running anywhere in the cluster, even if it is OFFLINE on this node. Check the alerts on each node individually to see if the service is ONLINE or OFFLINE locally.
An option to start, stop, and check the status of NFS, CIFS, and S3 services is available. You cannot start, stop, or check the status of the FTP service.
You can only provide the license file from the local system, the
scp
path is not supported through the GUI.
If you add the Access license using the Access shell menu:
When a node is restarted after the license has expired, the NFS, CIFS, FTP, and S3 services are stopped on that node. You can use the support services show command to display the node-wise status of the service.
An option to start, stop, and check the status of NFS, CIFS, FTP, and S3 services is available.
You can add the license using the license add command. The license add command provides support for
scp
path as well.The license list and license list details commands give details of the license installed on each node of the cluster.
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