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

Performing automatic or manual agent updates

You can set up automatic updates so that the agent can update to the latest version (1.3) once the AMS has been updated. By default, this option is disabled. Agents with appliance software version 3.1.1 or later can be updated.

Before starting this procedure, you must have the required management update package and add it to the Repository on the AMS. This is required for the automatic updates to work.

To configure automatic agent updates

  1. Log on to the Appliance Management Console.
  2. Click Settings and then click Auto-update agents.
  3. You can toggle the Auto-update agents slider and enable automatic updates. Enabling this feature means that each agent updates automatically over the next 24 hours. The agents are updated over the next 24 hours so it may take some time to display the updated agent version on the Home page. You can also click Monitor > Activity Monitor to view the AMA update task details for each appliance.

If you wish to disable automatic updates, you must update each agent manually to match the AMS version. You must download the required management update package from the Veritas Support website and add it to the Repository, then use the following procedure.

To update agent manually

  1. Log on to the Appliance Management Console.
  2. Click the agent hostname on the Home page.
  3. On the Overview page, click Update.

    You can also click Monitor > Activity Monitor to view the AMA update task details for each appliance. You can view the updated agent version from the AMS/Agent version column on the Home page.

  4. Repeat this procedure for all the agents that use the AMS.