Veritas Appliance Management Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (2.0)
Platform: Appliance Management Server
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Changes introduced in Appliance Management Server 2.0
    3.  
      Operational notes
    4.  
      About the Appliance Management Console
    5.  
      About the Appliance Management Server
    6.  
      About the Appliance Management Agent
    7.  
      About the AMS and the agent topology
  2. Managing an AMS
    1.  
      About configuring an AMS
    2.  
      Configuring NetBackup appliances as AMS
    3.  
      Configuring AMS as a container
    4.  
      Unconfiguring AMS on NetBackup appliances
    5.  
      Unconfiguring AMS as a container
    6.  
      About the AMS user role on NetBackup appliances
    7.  
      Granting the AMS role to a user or a user group on NetBackup appliances
    8.  
      Adding a user or user group to an AMS container
    9.  
      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
    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.  
      Viewing the capacity utilization of multiple appliances
    7.  
      Adding appliances to the Appliance Management Console
    8.  
      Removing one or more agents from the Appliance Management Console
    9. About managing appliance software upgrades
      1.  
        Upgrading NetBackup appliance software
    10.  
      Updating firmware on NetBackup appliances
    11.  
      Running hardware tests on NetBackup appliances
    12. Managing EEBs and other add-ons
      1.  
        Installing add-ons
      2.  
        Uninstalling add-ons
    13. About staging packages
      1.  
        Considerations for staging packages
      2.  
        Staging packages for installation or upgrade
    14. About managing services on NetBackup appliances
      1.  
        Requirements for managing services
      2.  
        Starting, stopping, or restarting services
    15.  
      Installing maintenance release packages on NetBackup appliances
  5. Monitoring activities and events
    1.  
      About the Activity Monitor
    2.  
      Accessing the Activity Monitor
    3.  
      Monitoring events
    4.  
      Accessing the NetInsights Console
  6. Managing the repository
    1.  
      About managing the repository
    2.  
      Guidelines for adding packages or files to the repository
    3.  
      Accessing the repository
    4.  
      Adding packages or files to the repository
    5.  
      Removing packages or files from the repository
  7. Applying management updates on NetBackup appliances
    1.  
      Supported updates and downloads 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

About configuring an AMS

You can configure any NetBackup appliance or a container as an Appliance Management Server (AMS). In an environment with several appliances, you can configure one AMS that manages multiple agents.

If you want to centrally manage multiple appliances in your environment from the Appliance Management Console, you must configure an AMS. To configure an appliance as an Appliance Management Server (AMS), you set the management role of the appliance as AMS. To configure a container as an AMS, you create and configure a new Linux container.

Before you configure an AMS, review the following prerequisites:

  • Any NetBackup appliance can be set as an AMS. The appliance must be configured.

  • You must configure AMS as a container to manage Flex appliances.

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

  • External and third-party certificates are not supported on the AMS. 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.

Use the following procedures to configure an AMS:

Table: Configuring an AMS

Sequence

Description

Link to topic

1

Configure a NetBackup appliance or container

See Configuring NetBackup appliances as AMS.

See Configuring AMS as a container.

2

Grant the AMS role to a user or a user group, or create a new user.

See Granting the AMS role to a user or a user group on NetBackup appliances.

See Adding a user or user group to an AMS container.

3

Access the Appliance Management Console.

See Logging on to the Appliance Management Console.

See Adding a user or user group to an AMS container.

4

Add the appliances that you want to manage.

See Adding appliances to the Appliance Management Console.

To check whether a NetBackup appliance is configured as AMS

  • Run the following command sequence from the shell menu:

    Appliance > Management Server Status