Veritas Appliance Management Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (3.2)
Platform: NetBackup Appliance OS
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      About the Appliance Management Console
    3.  
      About the Appliance Management Server
    4.  
      About the Appliance Management Agent
    5.  
      About the AMS and the agent topology
  2. Appliance as an AMS
    1.  
      Configuring an appliance as AMS
    2.  
      Setting or removing the management role of an appliance as AMS
    3.  
      About the AMS user role
    4.  
      Granting the AMS role to a user or a user group
  3. Using the Appliance Management Console
    1.  
      Logging on to the Appliance Management Console
    2.  
      Using the Home page
    3.  
      Changing passwords from the AMS
    4.  
      Managing the repository
    5.  
      Limiting the bandwidth used for downloads
    6.  
      Logging out of the Appliance Management Console
  4. Managing appliances from the Home page
    1.  
      Viewing the appliance details
    2.  
      Viewing performance charts for appliance
    3.  
      Exporting the appliance performance data
    4.  
      Adding an appliance to the Appliance Management Console
    5.  
      Removing one or more agents from the Appliance Management Console
    6.  
      Managing appliance software upgrades
    7. Managing EEBs
      1.  
        Installing EEBs
      2.  
        Uninstalling EEBs
  5. Using Activity Monitor and Events
    1.  
      About the Activity Monitor
    2.  
      Accessing the Activity Monitor
    3.  
      Monitoring events
    4.  
      Accessing the MyAppliance portal
  6. Applying management updates on earlier appliance versions
    1.  
      Downloading the AMS and agent updates for earlier versions
    2.  
      Managing AMS updates
    3.  
      Performing automatic or manual agent updates
  7. Running AMS on NetBackup Virtual Appliance
    1.  
      AMS on NetBackup Virtual Appliance
    2.  
      Configuring standalone AMS on a virtual appliance without any NetBackup configuration
    3.  
      Configuring master server or media server and AMS on a virtual appliance
    4.  
      Appliance Management Console login and user password change

Overview

The Veritas Appliance Management Console is a centralized management interface for multiple appliances. It enables a single administrator to manage many appliances simultaneously. This functionality is available from NetBackup Appliance 3.1 onwards.

The Appliance Management Console is hosted on an Appliance Management Server (AMS). You can add or remove configured appliances from the Appliance Management Console.

From the Appliance Management Console, you can perform the following tasks:

  • Upgrade selected appliances at the same time

  • Install emergency engineering binary files (patches) on or uninstall them from selected appliances

    Emergency engineering binary files are customer-related fixes that are incorporated into each release.

The Appliance Management Guide provides the processes you need to manage multiple appliances within a centralized management interface.

Note:

The Appliance Management Console supports NetBackup Appliances as well as NetBackup Virtual Appliances, but not Flex Appliances.