Veritas Appliance Management Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (2.2)
Platform: Appliance Management Server
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Changes introduced in Appliance Management Server 2.2
    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.  
      Unconfiguring AMS on NetBackup appliances
    5.  
      About the AMS user role on NetBackup appliances
    6.  
      Granting the AMS role to a user or a user group on NetBackup appliances
    7.  
      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
      1.  
        Installing EEBs
      2.  
        Uninstalling EEBs
    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

Logging on to the Appliance Management Console

You must do the following before you can access the Appliance Management Console:

To access the Appliance Management Console for NetBackup appliances, navigate to the NetBackup Appliance Web Console login page. From this page, you can access the Appliance Management Console and the NetBackup Appliance Console. You must enter AMS user credentials to access the Appliance Management Console. If you enter the regular admin credentials on the login page, you can access the NetBackup Appliance Web Console for the specific appliance.

Table: Recommended browsers for Appliance Management Console lists the recommended browsers for accessing the Appliance Management Console.

Table: Recommended browsers for Appliance Management Console

Browser

Supported version

Mozilla Firefox

52.0.0 and later

Google Chrome

57.0.2987 and later

The procedure to access the Appliance Management Console from the login page is described as follows.

To log on to the Appliance Management Console

  1. On a system that has a network connection to the appliance, start a web browser.

    Table: Recommended browsers for Appliance Management Console lists the recommended browsers for accessing the Appliance Management Console.

    In the web browser address bar, enter the following:

    https://host.domain where host.domain is the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the AMS and can also be an IP address.

    The hostname is the label that is assigned to your appliance to identify the device in your network.

  2. Enter the credentials of a user with an AMS role.

    You can access the Home page on the Appliance Management Console.