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

Setting or removing the management role of an appliance as AMS

You can set the management role for a NetBackup appliance. If you want to centrally manage multiple NetBackup appliances in your environment from the Appliance Management Console, you must set the management role of the appliances. In an environment, you can have one AMS that manages multiple agents.

Review the following prerequisites before setting the management role of an appliance as AMS:

  • Any appliance with version 3.1 or later can be set as an Appliance Management Server (AMS). The appliance must be configured.

    Veritas recommends that the AMS is configured on a master server.

  • You can either set the management role of an appliance as AMS or an agent and not both.

  • If you install your own certificate on the AMS or change the hostname of the AMS, then all the agents that were already registered must be added again. Similarly if you install your own certificate on the agent or change the hostname of the agent, then the agent must be added again to the AMS.

To set the management role of an appliance as AMS

  1. Log on to the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu. This should be the appliance that you want to set as AMS. The appliance must be version 3.1 or later.
  2. Navigate to the Appliance menu.
  3. Run the following command:

    Management Server

  4. The following message is displayed:
    [INFO] The Appliance Management Server is successfully configured.
Use the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu to create an appliance user 
(Local/LDAP/AD)with the AMS role.
Log on to the NetBackup Appliance Web Console with this account.

To remove the management role of an appliance as AMS

  • Run the following command sequence from the shell menu:

    Appliance > Management Server Unconfigure