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

Monitoring events

Use the Monitor > Events page in the Appliance Management Console to monitor the events that occur on the AMS and the agents that are managed.

Events that occurred in the last 6 months are displayed. You can also export events from the last 90 days in a CSV file.

Click Export to export events from the last 90 days in a CSV file.

Figure: Events page shows a sample Events page.

Figure: Events page

Events page

Examples of some events that can occur are:

  • Appliance was set as an AMS

  • Appliance was added to the AMS

  • Packages were added to the repository

  • Packages were deleted from the repository

  • Upgrade has started

  • Upgrade is complete

  • Upgrade has failed

  • Preflight check has started

  • Preflight check is complete

  • Preflight check has failed

  • EEB installation has started

  • EEB installation is complete

  • EEB installation has failed

  • User password was changed

  • Access key was regenerated

  • Access key could not be regenerated

  • AMS update has started (<package name>)

  • AMS update is complete (<package name>)

  • AMA update has started (<package name>)

  • AMA update is complete (<package name>)

Note:

When you update the 3.1.1 AMS to version 1.2 by using the management update package, you may see the event AMS upgrade has started on the Monitor > Events page. This is incorrect and it should say AMS update instead of AMS upgrade.

On completion of the update, another event is logged: AMS update is complete. This event correctly describes the event as AMS update.

Each event is attached to a specific host (AMS or agent) and has a severity. The event severity can be one of the following:

Event Severity

Description

Information

Information about normal system operation

Error

Indicates problems where immediate intervention is required. It may indicate that one or more operations have failed.

Warning

Alerts you about a condition that may cause an error.

You can search for the UMI code column (Unique Message Identifier) on the Support site to learn more about the event. Visit the Support site at:

https://www.veritas.com/support