Veritas Access Appliance Initial Configuration Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (7.4.3)
Platform: Veritas 3340,Access Appliance OS
  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
  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.  
      Accessing the Veritas Access web interface
  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 IPv4-IPv6-based network support on the Access Appliance
    2.  
      Configuring static routes on the appliance
    3.  
      Configuring DNS settings on the appliance
    4.  
      Configuring host name 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 factory reset for cluster nodes
    3.  
      Performing factory reset for a node not in a cluster
  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.  
      About forced password changes
    4.  
      Changing the Maintenance user account password
    5. 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
    6.  
      About the Access Appliance intrusion prevention system
    7. About Access appliance operating system security
      1.  
        Vulnerability scanning of the Access Appliance
      2.  
        Disabled service accounts on the Access appliance
    8.  
      About data security on the Access appliance
    9.  
      About data integrity on the Access appliance
    10. Recommended IPMI settings on the Access appliance
      1.  
        Replacing the default IPMI SSL certificate on the Access appliance

Configuring DNS settings on the appliance

Veritas strongly recommends that you configure DNS on the appliance node. The configured eth1 IP address must be resolved to a valid host name via the DNS server lookup or the local hosts file. The DNS server is required to be configured for Call Home.

Note:

Make sure that the network names of all appliances are DNS resolvable (FQDN and short name).

Note:

Make sure that forward and reverse DNS lookups are configured properly in your environment. If a forward or a reverse DNS lookup returns multiple records, the initial configuration may fail. You can check the DNS configuration with the following commands for each node. Each command should return only one entry.

To configure DNS settings

  1. Log on to the Access Appliance shell menu on one of the appliance nodes.
  2. From the Main_Menu > Network view, type the following command to add a DNS name server:

    DNS Add NameServer <IPAddress>

    Where <IPAddress> is the IP address of the name server. You can add multiple name servers.

  3. Type the following command to add a DNS search domain:

    DNS Add SearchDomain <DomainName>

    Where <DomainName> is the target domain for searching. For example:

    DNS Add SearchDomain mn.us.company.com

    You can add multiple search domains.

  4. Repeat this procedure on the other node.

To manually add an IP address and host name mapping

  1. Log on to the Access Appliance shell menu on one of the appliance nodes.
  2. From the Main_Menu > Network view, type the following command to manually add a host name:

    Hosts Add <IPAddress> <FQHN> <ShortName>

    Where <IPAddress>, <FQHN>, and <ShortName> are the IP address, fully qualified host name, and the short host name of the host.

  3. Repeat this procedure on the other node.

More Information

About IPv4-IPv6-based network support on the Access Appliance