Veritas Appliance Management Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (2.1)
Platform: Appliance Management Server
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Changes introduced in Appliance Management Server 2.1
    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 on NetBackup Virtual Appliance
    4.  
      Configuring AMS as a container
    5.  
      Unconfiguring AMS on NetBackup appliances
    6.  
      Unconfiguring AMS as a container
    7.  
      About the AMS user role on NetBackup appliances
    8.  
      Granting the AMS role to a user or a user group on NetBackup appliances
    9.  
      Adding a user or user group to an AMS container
    10.  
      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.  
        Starting, stopping, or restarting services
    15.  
      Installing maintenance release and security patch packages on NetBackup appliances
  5. Monitoring activities and events
    1.  
      Accessing the Activity Monitor
    2.  
      Monitoring events
    3.  
      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
    1.  
      Upgrading the AMS and the agents on NetBackup appliances
    2.  
      Managing AMS updates on NetBackup appliances
    3.  
      Performing automatic or manual agent updates on NetBackup appliances
    4.  
      Updating an AMS container
  8.  
    Index

Performing automatic or manual agent updates on NetBackup appliances

You can set up automatic updates so that the agent can update to the latest version (2.1) once the AMS has been updated. By default, this option is disabled. Agents with appliance software version 3.1.1 or later can be updated.

Automatic or manual agent updates are not currently supported on Flex appliances from the Appliance Management Console.

Before starting this procedure, you must have the required management update package and add it to the Repository on the AMS. This is required for the automatic updates to work.

To configure automatic agent updates

  1. Log on to the Appliance Management Console.
  2. Click Settings and then click Auto-update agents.
  3. You can toggle the Auto-update agents slider and enable automatic updates. Enabling this feature means that each agent updates automatically over the next 24 hours. The agents are updated over the next 24 hours so it may take some time to display the updated agent version on the Home page. You can also click Monitor > Activity Monitor to view the AMA update task details for each appliance.

If you wish to disable automatic updates, you must update each agent manually to match the AMS version. You must download the required management update package from the Veritas Support website and add it to the Repository, then use the following procedure.

To update agent manually

  1. Log on to the Appliance Management Console.
  2. Click the agent hostname on the Home page.
  3. On the Overview page, click Update.

    You can also click Monitor > Activity Monitor to view the AMA update task details for each appliance. You can view the updated agent version from the AMS/Agent version column on the Home page.

  4. Repeat this procedure for all the agents that use the AMS.