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

Configuring AMS as a container

AMS is available as a container to support Flex appliances in addition to NetBackup and NetBackup Virtual appliances.

Note:

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

Before you configure AMS as a container, ensure that you meet the following prerequisites:

  • You must have a physical or virtual machine with a minimum of 4 CPUs, 16 GB RAM, and 200 GB of persistent disk space.

  • Your operating system must be one of the following:

    • RHEL version 7.9 or later

    • Ubuntu version 18.04 or later

  • You must have access to a configured Linux server.

  • You must install Docker version 1.13 or later on the Linux server. Docker Community Edition or Enterprise Edition are supported.

To configure AMS as a container

  1. Download the AMS container image file from the Veritas Download Center.
  2. Import the image file to the Linux server using the following command:

    $ docker load -i <path to image file>

  3. Verify that the image file loaded using the following command:

    $ docker images

  4. Create and name a data directory using the following command:

    mkdir -p <directory path> where <directory path> is any directory name that you choose.

    For example: mkdir -p /home/amsdev/amsdata

    Note:

    Critical security data is stored in the directory and should be protected as outlined in your company's security policies.

  5. Open port 443 on the Linux server, if it is not already open. Then run the container using the following command:

    docker run -h <hostname> -v <directory>:/data -p 443:443 <image name>:<image tag> where <hostname> is the fully qualified hostname and <directory> is the name of the directory created. You can find the name of the image file and tag from the $ docker images command.

    You can also use the following optional parameters:

    • --name <container service name> for the name of the container service

    • -d for the container to run in the background

    For example:

    docker run --name ams-container -d -h <host name> -v /home/amsdev/amsdata:/data -p 443:443 appliancemgmt:2.0.0

  6. You can now access the Appliance Management Console at https://<hostname>. See Adding a user or user group to an AMS container.