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Veritas NetBackup™ Virtual Appliance Documentation

Last Published: 2021-01-22

Product(s): Appliances (3.3.0.1)

Platform: NetBackup Virtual Appliance

Getting to know the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
1. NetBackup Virtual Appliance product description
2. NetBackup Virtual Appliance supported features
3. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance documentation
4. NetBackup Virtual Appliance 3.3.0.1 new features, enhancements, and changes
5. Known limitations of the NetBackup Virtual Appliance 3.3.0.1 release
6. Operational Notes for the NetBackup Virtual Appliance 3.3.0.1 release
Preparing to deploy the appliance
1. NetBackup Virtual Appliance product files (OVF templates)
2. NetBackup Virtual Appliance deployment methods
3. NetBackup Virtual Appliance deployment guidelines
  1. Configuration overview for NetBackup Virtual Appliance MSDP cloud applications
  2. NetBackup Virtual Appliance initial deployment checklist
Deploying and configuring the appliance
1. How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server
2. How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance media server
3. How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance master server
Post initial configuration procedures
1. About modifying the NetBackup Virtual Appliance settings
2. Adding a permanent license key if an evaluation license key expires
3. Managing license keys on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
Appliance common tasks
1. Common tasks in NetBackup Virtual Appliance
Storage management
1. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance storage configuration
2. About OpenStorage plugin installation
  1. Installing the OpenStorage plugin
  2. Uninstalling the OpenStorage plugin
Deduplication pool catalog backup and recovery
1. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance deduplication pool catalog backup policy
2. Automatic configuration of the NetBackup Virtual Appliance deduplication pool catalog backup policy
3. Manually configuring the NetBackup Virtual Appliance deduplication pool catalog backup policy
4. Manually updating the NetBackup Virtual Appliance deduplication pool catalog backup policy
5. Recovering the NetBackup Virtual Appliance deduplication pool catalog
Network connection management
1. About IPv4-IPv6-based network support
2. Network settings for the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
3. Configuring DNS and host name mapping for the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
4. Setting the date and time on a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
5. Configuring static routes on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
6. Expanding the bandwidth on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
Managing users
1. About managing NetBackup Virtual Appliance users
2. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance account types
3. Adding NetBackup Virtual Appliance users
4. Deleting NetBackup Virtual Appliance users
5. Adding NetBackup Virtual Appliance user groups
6. Deleting NetBackup Virtual Appliance user groups
7. Granting roles to NetBackup Virtual Appliance users and user groups
8. Revoking roles from NetBackup Virtual Appliance users and user groups
9. About user name and password specifications
  1. About STIG-compliant password policy rules
10. Changing NetBackup Virtual Appliance user passwords
11. About password management and recovery
12. About authenticating LDAP users
13. About authenticating Active Directory users
  1. Adding an Active Directory server configuration
  2. Unconfiguring Active Directory user authentication on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
14. About authentication using smart cards and digital certificates
15. About authenticating Kerberos-NIS users
  1. Adding a Kerberos-NIS authentication configuration on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
  2. Unconfiguring Kerberos-NIS user authentication on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
16. Generic user authentication guidelines
17. About user authorization on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
18. Creating NetBackup administrator user accounts
19. Deleting NetBackup administrator user accounts
Using the appliance
1. About configuring Host parameters for your appliance on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
2. About Copilot functionality and Share management
3. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance as a VMware backup host
  1. NetBackup Virtual Appliance as backup host: component overview
  2. Notes on NetBackup Virtual Appliance as a VMware backup host
4. About running NetBackup commands from the appliance
5. About mounting a remote NFS
  1. Mounting a remote NFS drive
  2. Unmounting an NFS drive
6. About Auto Image Replication from a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
7. Generating certificates
Monitoring the appliance
1. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance alerts
2. Setting up email notifications for a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
3. Setting up SNMP notifications for a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
4. Enabling and disabling Call Home from the appliance shell menu
5. Configuring a Call Home proxy server from the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
6. About SNMP
  1. About the Management Information Base (MIB)
7. About Call Home
  1. Understanding the Call Home workflow
  2. About the Product Improvement Program
8. About AutoSupport
9. About storage email alerts
Appliance security
1. About Symantec Data Center Security on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
2. About data security
3. About data integrity
4. About data classification
5. About data encryption
6. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance intrusion detection system
7. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance intrusion prevention system
8. Major components of the NetBackup Virtual Appliance OS
9. OS STIG hardening for NetBackup Virtual Appliance
10. Unenforced STIG hardening rules
11. FIPS 140-2 conformance for NetBackup Virtual Appliance
12. Vulnerability scanning of the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
13. About the appliance login banner
14. Setting the appliance login banner
  1. Creating the appliance login banner
  2. Removing the appliance login banner
15. Log Forwarding feature overview
Upgrading the appliance
1. About upgrading to NetBackup Virtual Appliance software version 3.3.0.1
2. Requirements and best practices for upgrading NetBackup appliances
  1. Upgrade time estimation
3. Pre-upgrade tasks for appliance upgrades
4. Methods for downloading appliance software release updates
  1. Downloading software updates directly to a NetBackup appliance
  2. Downloading software updates to a NetBackup appliance using a client share
5. Installing a NetBackup Virtual Appliance software update using the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
6. Troubleshooting upgrade issues
NetBackup client upgrades with VxUpdate
1. About VxUpdate
2. VxUpdate repository management
3. Deployment policy management
4. Manually initiating upgrades from the master server using VxUpdate
5. Manually initiating upgrades from the client using VxUpdate
6. Deployment job status
Appliance restore
1. About appliance restore
2. Creating an appliance checkpoint from the appliance shell menu
3. Rollback to an appliance checkpoint from the appliance shell menu
4. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance factory reset
5. Factory reset best practices
6. How to factory reset the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
Decommissioning and Reconfiguring
1. About decommissioning a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
2. Decommissioning a NetBackup Virtual Appliance with the media server role
Troubleshooting
1. About troubleshooting the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
2. About contacting Technical Support
3. Determining the NetBackup Virtual Appliance serial number
4. About disaster recovery
  1. Recovering a NetBackup appliance master server using NetBackup catalog restore
5. About NetBackup support utilities
  1. NetBackup Domain Network Analyzer (NBDNA)
  2. NetBackup Support Utility (NBSU)
6. Troubleshooting NetBackup Virtual Appliance initial deployment issues
7. Error messages displayed on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
8. NetBackup status codes applicable for NetBackup Virtual Appliance
9. Installing an EEB
10. Rolling back an EEB using the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
Appliance logging
1. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance log files
2. Viewing log files using the Support command
3. Where to find NetBackup Virtual Appliance log files using the Browse command
4. Enabling and disabling VxMS logging
5. Gathering device logs on a NetBackup virtual appliance
6. About forwarding logs to an external server
Commands overview
1. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
2. Logging in to the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
3. Using the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
4. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu command views
Appendix A. Appliance commands
1. Appliance > Master
2. Appliance > Media
3. Appliance > ShowDedupPassword
4. Appliance > Status
5. Appliance > Configure
Appendix B. Manage commands
1. Manage > Software > Delete
2. Manage > Software > Download
3. Manage > Software > List
4. Manage > Software > Install
5. Manage > Software > Share
6. Manage > Software > Readme
7. Manage > Software > Rollback
8. Manage > Software > Cancel
9. Manage > Software > DownloadProgress
10. Manage > Software > UpgradeStatus
11. Manage > Software > VxUpdate
12. Manage > Storage > Show
13. Manage > Storage > Add
14. Manage > Storage > Create
15. Manage > Storage > Delete
16. Manage > Storage > Edit
17. Manage > Storage > Monitor
18. Manage > Storage > Move
19. Manage > Storage > Remove
20. Manage > Storage > Resize
21. Manage > Storage > Scan
22. Manage > OpenStorage > Install
23. Manage > OpenStorage > List
24. Manage > OpenStorage > Readme
25. Manage > OpenStorage > Share
26. Manage > OpenStorage > Uninstall
27. Manage > MountPoints > List
28. Manage > MountPoints > Mount
29. Manage > MountPoints > Unmount
30. Manage > License > Add
31. Manage > License > List
32. Manage > License > ListInfo
33. Manage > License > Remove
34. Manage > Certificates > Generate
35. Manage > Certificates > Delete
36. Manage > NetBackupCLI > Create
37. Manage > NetBackupCLI > Delete
38. Manage > NetBackupCLI > List
Appendix C. Monitor commands
1. Monitor > Uptime
2. Monitor > Who
3. Monitor > NetworkStatus
4. Monitor > Top
5. Monitor > MemoryStatus
6. Monitor > SDCS
7. Monitor > NetBackup
8. Monitor > Hardware
Appendix D. Network commands
1. Network > Configure
2. Network > Date
3. Network > DNS
4. Network > Gateway
5. Network > Hostname
6. Network > Hosts
7. Network > IPv4
8. Network > IPv6
9. Network > LinkAggregation
10. Network > NetStat
11. Network > NTPServer
12. Network > Ping
13. Network > SetProperty
14. Network > Show
15. Network > TimeZone
16. Network > TraceRoute
17. Network > Unconfigure
18. Network > WANOptimization
Appendix E. Reports commands
1. Reports > Deduplication
2. Reports > Process
Appendix F. Settings commands
1. Settings > Deduplication
2. Settings > LifeCycle
3. Settings > LogForwarding
4. Settings > NetBackup
5. Settings > Password
6. Settings > SystemLocale
7. Settings > Share
8. Settings > Sysctl
9. Settings > NetBackup DNAT
10. Settings > NetBackup NATServers
11. Settings > Notifications > LoginBanner
12. Settings > Security > Authentication > LDAP
13. Settings > Security > Authentication > ActiveDirectory
14. Settings > Security > Authentication > Kerberos
15. Settings > Security > Authentication > LocalUser
16. Settings > Security > Authorization
17. Main > Settings > Security > Certificate
18. Main > Settings > Security > STIG
19. Main > Settings > Security > FIPS
20. Settings > Alerts > CallHome
21. Settings > Alerts > SNMP
22. Settings > Alerts > Email
23. Settings > Alerts > Hardware
Appendix G. Support commands
1. Support > Checkpoint
2. Support > DataCollect
3. Support > Disk
4. Support > Errors
5. Support > FactoryReset
6. Support > InfraServices
7. Support > iostat
8. Support > LogBrowser
9. Support > Logs
10. Support > Maintenance
11. Support > Messages
12. Support > NBDNA
13. Support > nbperfchk
14. Support > NBSU
15. Support > Processes
16. Support > Reboot
17. Support > Service
18. Support > Shutdown
19. Support > Storage SanityCheck
20. Support > Storage Reset
21. Support > Test

Name

Main > Settings > Notifications > LoginBanner — Set and manage a text banner that appears before a user logs on to the appliance.

SYNOPSIS

Remove

Set

Show

SyncNetBackup

DESCRIPTION

The LoginBanner command lets you create a text banner message for your appliance that appears before a user logs on through one of the appliances.

When you set a login banner, it appears with the following appliance login methods:

NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
NetBackup Administration Console (optional)

OPTIONS

Remove: Remove the current login banner from the appliance. The option is also given to remove the login banner from the NetBackup Administration Console.

Set

Set a new appliance login banner. When you use this option, the appliance prompts you to enter a login banner heading and message to be displayed when a user tries to log on to the appliance.

The banner heading and banner message are both mandatory. Typing return for the heading text or the message text exits the banner configuration without saving any changes.

Banner heading maximum characters: 250
Banner message maximum characters: 29,000
Standard English alphabet

Show: View the current login banner.

SyncNetBackup: Set the existing appliance login banner in the NetBackup Administration Console. This command overwrites the existing NetBackup login banner content with the appliance login banner content. If you run this command when there is no existing appliance login banner, the NetBackup login banner is removed.

EXAMPLES

Example 1 - set a new login banner for the appliance and NetBackup using the LoginBanner Set command:

appliance123.Notifications> LoginBanner Set 
Enter a heading for the login banner (250 characters limit) or type 
'return' to exit:

This is a test banner heading

Enter the message text for the login banner (type 'end' on a new 
line to indicate the end of message text):

This is a test banner message.
end

Preview:

*******************************
This is a test banner heading
*******************************

This is a test banner message.

The existing banner will be overwritten and the SSH daemon 
will be restarted. Do you want to proceed? [y,n]: (y) y
Setting the login banner...                     done

Do you want to use this banner for the NetBackup Administration
 Console as well? (Any existing NetBackup login banner will 
be overwritten.) [y,n]: (y) y
Setting the login banner in NetBackup...        done

Once the login banner is set, it displays for any user that tries to access the appliance using SSH. See the following example:

ssh admin@appliance123.com
*******************************
This is a test banner heading
*******************************


This is a test banner message.


Password:

Example 2 - remove the login banner from the appliance and NetBackup using the LoginBanner Remove command:

appliance123.Notifications> LoginBanner Remove
The existing banner will be removed and the SSH daemon 
will be restarted. Do you want to proceed? [y,n]: (y) y
Removing the login banner...                        done


Do you want to remove the banner from the NetBackup 
Administration Console as well? [y,n]: (y) y
Removing the login banner from NetBackup...         done

Example 3 - Set the current appliance login banner to the NetBackup Administration Console using the LoginBanner SyncNetBackup command:

appliance123.Notifications> LoginBanner SyncNetBackup
Are you sure you want to use the current appliance login banner 
for the NetBackup Administration Console as well?
(Any existing NetBackup login banner will be overwritten.) [y, n]: (y) y
Setting the login banner in NetBackup...           done