Veritas Access Appliance Initial Configuration 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 VLAN tagging on the appliance
- Configuring static routes on the appliance
- Configuring DNS settings on the appliance
- Configuring host name on the appliance
- About the maximum transmission unit size on the appliance
- About the Veritas Remote Management Console
- Setting the date and time on the appliance
- Monitoring the appliance
- Resetting the appliance to factory settings
- Appliance security
- About Access Appliance security
- About Access appliance user account privileges
- Changing the Maintenance user account password
- About the Access Appliance intrusion detection system
- About Access appliance operating system security
- About data security on the Access appliance
- About data integrity on the Access appliance
- Recommended IPMI settings on the Access appliance
- Troubleshooting
Configuring DNS settings on the appliance
Veritas strongly recommends that you configure DNS on the appliance node. It is required for both forward and reverse DNS resolution of an FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) that corresponds to the IP address assigned to eth1.
See Initial configuration requirements.
Note:
Make sure that the network names of all appliances are DNS resolvable (FQDN and short name).
Note:
Make sure that forward and reverse DNS lookups are configured properly in your environment. If a forward or a reverse DNS lookup returns multiple records, the initial configuration may fail. You can check the DNS configuration with the following commands for each node. Each command should return only one entry
Linux:
dig +short @<DNS server IP address> a <node hostname> dig +short @<DNS server IP address> -x <node IP address>
Windows:
nslookup <node IP address> nslookup <node hostname>
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 an IP address and host name mapping
- 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.
More Information
About IPv4-IPv6-based network support on the Access Appliance