Veritas Access Appliance Initial Configuration Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (7.4.2)
Platform: Access Appliance OS
  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
  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 Veritas Data Deduplication
        1.  
          About Veritas Data Deduplication
        2.  
          Add-on license for using Veritas Data Deduplication
        3.  
          Viewing information about Veritas Data Deduplication
        4.  
          Increasing storage for Veritas Data Deduplication
        5.  
          Starting or stopping the Veritas Data Deduplication service
        6.  
          Unconfiguring Veritas Data Deduplication
      2.  
        Configuring storage for LTR
  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 IPv4-IPv6-based network support on the Access Appliance
    2.  
      About VLAN tagging on the appliance
    3.  
      Configuring static routes on the appliance
    4.  
      Configuring DNS settings on the appliance
    5.  
      Configuring host name on the appliance
    6.  
      About the maximum transmission unit size on the appliance
    7. 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
    8.  
      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

Configuring network address settings on the appliance nodes

You can configure the network settings for eth0 and eth1 of an appliance node.

Note:

Review IPv4-IPv6 support information before you begin.

See About IPv4-IPv6-based network support on the Access Appliance.

To configure the appliance node to communicate with one network

  1. Log on to the Access Appliance shell menu on the desired node.
  2. From the Main_Menu > Network view, type the following command to verify which network ports and bonds are plugged and available for configuration:

    Show Status

  3. Type the following command to configure the appliance to connect to a single network:

    Configure <IPAddress> <Netmask> <GatewayIPAddress> <InterfaceNames>

    • <IPAddress> - The new IP address that you want to assign to the network interface.

    • <Netmask> - The subnet mask (IPv4) or prefix length (IPv6).

    • <GatewayIPAddress> - The default gateway for the appliance node.

    • <InterfaceNames> - The network port that you want to assign the configuration to, such as eth1.

    For example:

    Configure 10.182.20.255 255.255.224.0 10.182.1.1 eth1

    Note:

    You should not use both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in the same command, such as the following:

    Configure 9ffe::9 255.255.255.0 1.1.1.1

To configure the appliance node to communicate with more than one network

  1. Log on to the Access Appliance shell menu on the current node.
  2. From the Main_Menu > Network view, type the following command to verify which network ports are available for configuration:

    Show Status

  3. Type the following command to configure an IPv4 address for the network interface:

    IPv4 <IPAddress> <NetMask> <InterfaceNames>

    IPv6 <IPAddress> <Prefix> <InterfaceNames>

    • <IPAddress> - The new IPv4 or IPv6 address that you want to assign to the network interface.

    • <Netmask> and <Prefix> - The subnet mask (IPv4) or prefix length (IPv6).

    • <InterfaceName> - The network interface that you want to assign the configuration to, such as eth1 .

    For example:

    Configure 9ffe::46 64 9ffe::49 eth1
  4. (Optional) If you are configuring the appliance for the first time, you need to configure a default gateway for the appliance. You can then specify a gateway for each specific network configuration, if desired.

    Type the following command:

    Gateway Add <GatewayIPAddress> [TargetNetworkIPAddress] [Netmask] [InterfaceName]

    • <GatewayIPAddress> - The IP address leading to the remote network (generally a gateway or router).

    • [TargetNetworkIPAddress] - The IP address of the destination network or host.

    • [Netmask] - The subnet mask (IPv4) or prefix length (IPv6) that corresponds to the address that you specified for [TargetNetworkIPAddress].

    • [InterfaceName] - The name of the network interface that you want the traffic to exit from.

    For example:

    Gateway Add 192.168.1.1 10.10.0.0 255.255.248.0 eth1