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

About licensing the Access Appliance

The Veritas Access software on the appliance includes a built-in evaluation license that activates once you complete the appliance initial configuration. You have to obtain a license to use the Access software on the appliance after the evaluation period.

You can choose one of the following licensing methods to license the appliance after configuration:

  • Enter a valid perpetual license key file matching the functionality in use on the systems.

    A perpetual license is like a permanent license for using Access.

  • Enter a valid subscription license key file matching the functionality in use on the systems.

    A subscription license is a license with validity of one year.

  • Continue with evaluation mode, and complete system licensing later.

    This license is a trialware which can be used for 60 days.

    Configuring the appliance without a license does not eliminate the need to obtain a license. The administrator and company representatives must ensure that the appliance is entitled to the license level for the products installed. Veritas reserves the right to ensure entitlement and compliance through auditing.

To comply with the terms of the End User License Agreement, you have 60 days to either enter a valid subscription or perpetual license key or continue in evaluation mode.

If you encounter problems while licensing this product, visit the Veritas licensing Support website.

www.veritas.com/licensing/process

The Access licensing has a few functional enforcements.

Table: Functional enforcements of Access licensing

Enforcement

Action

During Validity

None

During Grace period

Nagging message (in the GUI only)

Post Grace Period

Before you restart the node, you can stop the NFS, CIFS, FTP, and S3 services, but you cannot start the services again (even if you have not restarted the node).

After you restart the node, the NFS, CIFS, FTP, and S3 services do not come ONLINE on the restarted node.

If you add the Access license using the Access GUI:

  • When a node is restarted after the license has expired, the NFS, CIFS, FTP, and S3 services are stopped on that node. The status of the service appears ONLINE if the service is running anywhere in the cluster, even if it is OFFLINE on this node. Check the alerts on each node individually to see if the service is ONLINE or OFFLINE locally.

  • An option to start, stop, and check the status of NFS, CIFS, and S3 services is available. You cannot start, stop, or check the status of the FTP service.

  • You can only provide the license file from the local system, the scp path is not supported through the GUI.

If you add the Access license using the Access shell menu:

  • When a node is restarted after the license has expired, the NFS, CIFS, FTP, and S3 services are stopped on that node. You can use the support services show command to display the node-wise status of the service.

  • An option to start, stop, and check the status of NFS, CIFS, FTP, and S3 services is available.

  • You can add the license using the license add command. The license add command provides support for scp path as well.

  • The license list and license list details commands give details of the license installed on each node of the cluster.

More Information

Configuring the Access cluster on the appliance