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

Changes introduced in Appliance Management Server 1.4.2

The following change is introduced in this release.

NetBackup Appliance maintenance release support

You can now install NetBackup Appliance Maintenance Release (MR) packages with versions that are higher than the NetBackup Appliance version.

For example, if the Maintenance Release package is version 3.2, it could be installed on NetBackup Appliance version 3.1.2.

Note that you must run the Appliance Readiness Analyzer manually before installing.

See Installing maintenance release packages.

Known issue

When you upgrade to NetBackup Appliance 4.1 using the Appliance Management Server (AMS) 1.4.2, the following error will appear: "Appliance Upgrade Readiness Analyzer package not found in the repository for this upgrade."

This issue was present in the previous AMS 1.4.2 package and has been resolved in the latest package available on the Veritas Download Center. To resolve this issue, download the AMS 1.4.2 package from the Veritas Download Center and update the AMS.