Veritas Appliance Management Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (4.1)
Platform: NetBackup Appliance OS
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Changes introduced in Appliance Management Server 1.4.2
    3.  
      About the Appliance Management Console
    4.  
      About the Appliance Management Server
    5.  
      About the Appliance Management Agent
    6.  
      About the AMS and the agent topology
  2. Appliance as an AMS
    1.  
      About configuring an appliance as AMS
    2.  
      Configuring an appliance as AMS
    3.  
      Unconfiguring AMS
    4.  
      About the AMS user role
    5.  
      Granting the AMS role to a user or a user group
    6.  
      About collecting AMS logs
  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.  
      Limiting the bandwidth used for downloads
    5.  
      Logging out of the Appliance Management Console
  4. Managing appliances from the Home page
    1.  
      Viewing the appliance details
    2.  
      Rebooting an appliance
    3.  
      Viewing performance charts for appliance
    4.  
      Exporting the appliance performance data
    5.  
      Viewing the capacity utilization of an appliance
    6.  
      Adding an appliance to the Appliance Management Console
    7.  
      Removing one or more agents from the Appliance Management Console
    8. About managing appliance software upgrades
      1.  
        Guidelines for multiple appliance upgrades
      2.  
        Upgrading appliance software
    9. Managing EEBs or add-ons
      1.  
        Installing EEBs or add-ons
      2.  
        Uninstalling EEBs or add-ons
    10. About staging packages
      1.  
        Considerations for staging packages
      2.  
        Staging packages for installation or upgrade
    11. About managing services
      1.  
        Requirements for managing services
      2.  
        Starting, stopping, or restarting services
    12.  
      Installing maintenance release packages
  5. Monitoring activities and events
    1.  
      About the Activity Monitor
    2.  
      Accessing the Activity Monitor
    3.  
      Monitoring events
    4.  
      Accessing the MyAppliance portal
  6. Managing the repository
    1.  
      About managing the repository
    2.  
      Guidelines for adding upgrade packages or files to the repository
    3.  
      Accessing the repository
    4.  
      Adding upgrade packages or EEB files to the repository
    5.  
      Removing upgrade packages or EEB files from the Repository
  7. Applying management updates on earlier appliance versions
    1.  
      Supported updates and downloads for for earlier versions of AMS and the agents
    2.  
      Managing AMS updates
    3.  
      Performing automatic or manual agent updates
  8. 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 primary server or media server and AMS on a virtual appliance
    4.  
      Appliance Management Console login and user password change
  9.  
    Index

Logging on to the Appliance Management Console

You must do the following before you can access the Appliance Management Console:

Once you meet these prerequisites, open the NetBackup Appliance Web Console login page on the AMS by using a supported browser and log on as an AMS user to access the Appliance Management Console. The login page can be used for logging on to the Appliance Management Console and also the NetBackup Appliance Web Console. You must enter AMS user credentials to access the Appliance Management Console. If you enter the regular admin credentials on the login page, you can access the NetBackup Appliance Web Console for the specific appliance.

Table: Recommended browsers for Appliance Management Console lists the recommended browsers for accessing the Appliance Management Console.

Table: Recommended browsers for Appliance Management Console

Browser

Supported version

Mozilla Firefox

52.0.0 and later

Google Chrome

57.0.2987 and later

The procedure to access the Appliance Management Console from the login page is described as follows.

To log on to the Appliance Management Console

Note:

Before logging on the Appliance Management Console, you must set the appliance as AMS. You must also grant an AMS role to a user from the AMS shell menu.

  1. On a system that has a network connection to the appliance, start a web browser.

    Table: Recommended browsers for Appliance Management Console lists the recommended browsers for accessing the Appliance Management Console.

    In the web browser address bar, enter the following:

    https://host.domain where host.domain is the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the AMS and can also be an IP address.

    The hostname is the label that is assigned to your appliance to identify the device in your network.

  2. Enter the credentials of a user with an AMS role.

    You can access the Home page on the Appliance Management Console.

    Note:

    You must enter AMS user credentials to access the Appliance Management Console. If you enter the regular admin credentials on the login page, you will access the NetBackup Appliance Web Console for the specific appliance.