Veritas NetBackup™ Upgrade Guide
- Introduction
- Planning for an upgrade
- General upgrade planning information
- About upgrade tools
- Upgrade operational notes and limitations
- Creating the user account to support the NetBackup web server
- About NetBackup 8.3 support for Fibre Transport Media Server with RHEL 7.5
- MSDP changes in NetBackup 8.1
- Potential required changes for NetApp clusters
- Errors when Bare Metal Restore information is replicated using Auto Image Replication
- Upgrade issue with pre-8.1 clients and 8.1 or later media servers
- Master server upgrade
- About master server upgrades
- Preinstall procedure for upgrading to NetBackup 8.3
- Performing local, remote, or clustered server upgrades on Windows systems
- Performing silent upgrades on Windows systems
- Upgrading UNIX and Linux server software to NetBackup 8.3
- Post-install procedure for upgrading to NetBackup 8.3
- About NetBackup startup and shutdown scripts
- Completing your system update after an upgrade
- Media server upgrade
- MSDP upgrade for NetBackup
- Client upgrade
- NetBackup Deployment Management with VxUpdate
- Appendix A. Reference
- NetBackup master server web server user and group creation
- Generate a certificate on the inactive nodes of a clustered master server
- About the NetBackup Java Runtime Environment
- Add or Remove Java GUI and JRE after upgrade
- About the NetBackup web user interface
- About the NetBackup answer file
- About RBAC bootstrapping
- About NetBackup software availability
- Additional post-upgrade steps for NetApp clusters
- Using NetApp disk arrays with Replication Director
- About compatibility between NetBackup versions
- Upgrade requirements for UNIX and Linux
- Installation and upgrade requirements for Windows and Windows clusters
- Requirements for Windows cluster installations and upgrades
- Removing a clustered media server by migrating all data to a new media server
- Disabling the connection between your OpsCenter server and your NetBackup Master Server
- Post upgrade procedures for Amazon cloud storage servers
- Upgrading clients after servers are upgraded
- Index
Disabling the connection between your OpsCenter server and your NetBackup Master Server
If you need to upgrade your NetBackup Master Server before you upgrade your OpsCenter server, you can disable the relationship between your master and OpsCenter servers.
Please be aware of the limitations and potential data loss concerns related to disabling data collection:
It is not supported to collect data from the NetBackup master server that is at a higher version than the OpsCenter server. The OpsCenter server must be at the same version or higher than the NetBackup master server.
After the OpsCenter Data Collection is disabled for the master server, OpsCenter does not receive any alerts or new data in the OpsCenter reports. Data that was collected before data collection was disabled is still available in the OpsCenter reports.
After you upgrade OpsCenter and enable data collection, OpsCenter receives any new alerts for the master server and new data in the reports. OpsCenter collects data for the time when data collection was disabled only if the data is still available on the master server. Reporting data and alerts are lost if the master server job retention level is shorter than the time that the data collection is disabled.
To disable the connection between the master server and the OpsCenter server
- Disable data collection in OpsCenter.
Settings > Configuration > NetBackup > NetBackup Master Server to be upgraded > Disable Data Collection
- Upgrade the NetBackup Master Server.
You can now operate both NetBackup and OpsCenter, but OpsCenter does not have complete data.
To enable the connection between the master server and the OpsCenter server
- Upgrade OpsCenter.
- Enable data collection on OpsCenter once the OpsCenter upgrade completes successfully.
Settings > Configuration > NetBackup > NetBackup Master Server to be upgraded > Enable Data Collection