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

Gathering device logs with the DataCollect command

You can use the DataCollect command from the Main_Menu > Support view to gather device logs. You can share these device logs with the Veritas Support team to resolve device-related issues.

Along with the operating system, IPMI, and storage logs, the DataCollect command now collects the following logs as well:

  • Access product logs

  • Command output logs

  • Patch logs

  • File System logs

  • Test hardware logs

  • CPU information

  • Disk performance logs

  • Memory information

  • Hardware information

To gather device logs with the DataCollect command

  1. Log on to the Access Appliance shell menu of the desired node.
  2. Enter the Main_Menu > Support view.
  3. Type the DataCollect command to gather storage device logs.
    Gathering release information
    Gathering disk performance logs
    Gathering command output logs
    Gathering dmidecode logs
    Gathering ipmitool sel list logs
    Gathering ipmitool sel writeraw logs
    Gathering fwtermlog logs
    Gathering AdpEventLog logs
    Gathering smartctl logs
    Gathering ipmiutil command output
    Gathering BMC Debug logs
    Gathering Seagate storage array logs
    Gathering cpu information
    Gathering memory information
    Gathering os logs
    Gathering dfinfo logs
    Gathering vxprint logs
    Gathering patch logs
    Gathering autosupport logs
    Gathering sysinfo logs
    Gathering sdr logs
    Gathering adpallinfo logs
    Gathering encinfo logs
    Gathering cfgdsply logs
    Gathering cfgdsply logs for LTR
    Gathering ldpdinfo logs
    Gathering pdlist logs
    Gathering fru logs
    Gathering adpbbucmd logs
    Gathering sas3ircu logs
    Gathering sas3ircu display logs
    Gathering adpalilog logs
    Gathering Test Hardware logs
    Gathering Access product logs
    
    
    All logs have been collected in /tmp/DataCollect.zip
    Log file can be collected from the appliance shared folder - \\\logs\APPLIANCE
    Share can be opened using Main->Support->Logs->Share Open
    The Log files DataCollect-XXXX9000918-20180201012500.tar.gz collected from the 
    appliance are sent to AutoSupport servers.
    The data transmission may complete in several minutes or longer due to file size
    , network status, appliance performance and other reasons.
    =======================End of DataCollect=========================================

    The appliance generates the device log in the /tmp/DataCollect.zip file.

  4. Copy the/tmp/DataCollect.zip to your local folders by using the Main > Support > Logs > Share Open command.
  5. You can send the DataCollect.zip file to the Veritas Support team to resolve your issues.