Veritas Access Appliance Initial Configuration and Administration Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (7.3.2)
Platform: 3340
  1. Getting to know the Access Appliance
    1.  
      About the Veritas Access Appliance
    2. About the Access Appliance administration interfaces
      1.  
        Using the Access Appliance shell menu
    3.  
      About licensing the Access Appliance
    4. Where to find the documentation
      1.  
        Changes in the Access Appliance document revision
  2. Preparing to configure the appliance
    1.  
      Initial configuration requirements
    2.  
      About obtaining IP addresses for Veritas Access
    3.  
      Network and firewall requirements
  3. Configuring the appliance for the first time
    1. How to configure the Access Appliance for the first time
      1.  
        Configuring the Access cluster on the appliance
  4. Getting started with the Veritas Access GUI
    1.  
      Where to find the Veritas Access GUI
    2. About the Veritas Access 3340 Appliance
      1.  
        Configuring the storage
      2.  
        Configuring an S3 server
      3.  
        Activating an LTR policy
      4.  
        Generating S3 keys
      5.  
        Provisioning the storage
  5. Storage management
    1.  
      About the appliance storage
    2.  
      Viewing the storage on the appliance
    3.  
      Scanning the storage on the appliance
  6. Network connection management
    1. Configuring network address settings on the appliance nodes
      1.  
        About NIC1 (eth0) port usage on the appliance nodes
    2.  
      About VLAN tagging on the appliance
    3.  
      Configuring static routes on the appliance
    4.  
      Configuring DNS and host name mapping on the appliance
    5.  
      About the maximum transmission unit size on the appliance
    6. About the Veritas Remote Management Console
      1.  
        Configuring the IPMI port on an appliance node
      2.  
        Managing IPMI users on an appliance node
      3.  
        Resetting the IPMI on an appliance node
    7.  
      Setting the date and time on the appliance
  7. Monitoring the appliance
    1.  
      About hardware monitoring in the Access GUI
    2. About Veritas AutoSupport on the Access Appliance
      1.  
        Setting up AutoSupport on the appliance
      2.  
        Using a proxy server with the appliance
    3.  
      Setting up email notifications on the appliance
    4.  
      Setting up SNMP notifications on the appliance
    5.  
      Testing the appliance hardware
  8. Resetting the appliance to factory settings
    1.  
      About appliance factory reset
    2.  
      Performing a single node factory reset
    3.  
      Performing a full appliance cluster factory reset
  9. Appliance security
    1.  
      About Access Appliance security
    2. About Access appliance user account privileges
      1. Access appliance admin password specifications
        1.  
          Password encryption and handling on the Access appliance
    3.  
      Changing the Maintenance user account password
    4. About the Access Appliance intrusion detection system
      1.  
        Reviewing SDCS events on the Access Appliance
      2.  
        Auditing the SDCS logs on an Access Appliance
      3.  
        About SDCS event type codes and severity codes on an Access appliance node
      4.  
        Changing the SDCS log retention settings on an Access appliance node
    5. About Access appliance operating system security
      1.  
        Vulnerability scanning of the Access Appliance
      2.  
        Disabled service accounts on the Access appliance
    6.  
      About data security on the Access appliance
    7.  
      About data integrity on the Access appliance
    8. Recommended IPMI settings on the Access appliance
      1.  
        Replacing the default IPMI SSL certificate on the Access appliance
  10. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      About appliance log files
    2.  
      Viewing log files using the Support command
    3.  
      Gathering device logs with the DataCollect command

Performing a full appliance cluster factory reset

To reset the entire appliance cluster, you must perform the following tasks:

  1. Remove the first node from the cluster.

  2. Factory reset the first node, making sure not to reset the attached storage at this step.

  3. Factory reset the second node and the attached storage.

For more information about Veritas Access commands, refer to the Veritas Access Command Reference Guide.

Note:

A factory reset operation returns the password to the original, default value.

To perform a full appliance cluster factory reset

  1. Remove the first node from the cluster.
  2. Log on to the Access Appliance shell menu of the first appliance node.
  3. Enter the command Main_Menu > Support > FactoryReset, and information messages show.
  4. Select if you want to reset the network configuration and storage configuration. Make sure that you select no, when you see the following question:
    >> Do you want to reset the storage configuration and delete 
    the data on the attached storage as part of the factory reset? (Select
    'no' if you are resetting just a single node and want to preserve the 
    cluster.) [yes, no](no) no
  5. After you respond to these questions, the summary information displays.
  6. The following warning appears. If you want to begin the factory reset operation, enter yes.
    >> WARNING: The node is ready for factory reset. This process cannot 
    be reversed! Do you want to proceed? [yes, no] (no) yes

    Wait until the first node factory reset completes.

  7. Log on to the Access Appliance shell menu of the second appliance node.
  8. Enter the command Main_Menu > Support > FactoryReset, and information messages show.

    Make sure that you select yes to reset the storage:

    >> Do you want to reset the storage configuration and delete the 
    data on the attached storage as part of the factory reset? (Select 
    'no' if you are resetting just a single node and want to preserve 
    the cluster.) [yes, no](no)yes
  9. The factory reset continues and the following message appears:
    -[Info] Running factory reset. This process can take up to 20 minutes...
    -[Info] The appliance is restarting...