Veritas Flex Appliance Getting Started and Administration Guide
- Product overview
- Getting started
- Modifying settings
- Managing users
- Overview of the Flex Appliance default users
- Managing Flex Appliance Console users and tenants
- Adding a tenant
- Editing a tenant
- Removing a tenant
- Adding a local user to the Flex Appliance Console
- Connecting an Active Directory domain to the Flex Appliance Console
- Importing an Active Directory user or user group to the Flex Appliance Console
- Editing an Active Directory domain in the Flex Appliance Console
- Changing a user password in the Flex Appliance Console
- Removing a user from the Flex Appliance Console
- Changing the hostadmin user password in the Flex Appliance Shell
- Managing NetBackup application instance users
- Using Flex Appliance
- Managing the repository
- Creating application instances
- Managing application instances
- Resizing instance storage
- Editing instance network settings
- Managing application add-ons on instances
- Viewing instance performance metrics
- Running NetBackup commands on an application instance
- Setting environment variables on NetBackup instances
- Storing custom data on a NetBackup instance
- Establishing trust with a NetBackup 7.7.3 master server instance
- Upgrading application instances
- About Flex Appliance upgrades and updates
- Monitoring the appliance
- Reconfiguring the appliance
- Troubleshooting guidelines
Performing a factory reset
The purpose of a factory reset is to return a node to a clean, unconfigured, factory state. A factory reset discards all configuration data but does not affect the storage data.
Note:
If you have a multi-node appliance, a factory reset only affects the node that you run this procedure from. If you want to reset both nodes, repeat the procedure on the other node.
After you perform a factory reset, you can also reset the storage if desired.
To perform a factory reset
- Log in to the Flex Appliance Shell from the node that you want to reset, and then type the following:
system factory-reset
- Press Enter.
- Type yes to continue, and then press Enter.
Note:
Once you have started the factory-reset operation, do not perform any other tasks on the appliance until the reset is complete.
When the process is complete, you are prompted to restart. The factory reset is not complete until after the system is restarted. The system continues to run with the current configuration until after the restart is completed.
- Do one of the following:
To restart the node now, type yes, and then press Enter.
To restart the node later, type no, and then press Enter.
You can type the following command at any time to restart:
system restart
After the factory reset is complete, do one of the following:
If you want to delete the existing storage data, perform a storage reset and then perform the initial configuration again to reconfigure your settings.
If you do not want to delete the storage data, you can recover the appliance with the existing storage data.
If the node was never configured with the configure-console command, proceed with the initial configuration.
After the factory reset is complete, do one of the following:
If you performed the factory reset on only one of the nodes, add the reset node back to the appliance. See Adding a node.
If you performed the factory reset on both nodes and want to delete the existing storage data, perform a storage reset and then perform the initial configuration again to reconfigure your settings.
If you performed the factory reset on both nodes and do not want to delete the storage data, you can recover the appliance with the existing storage data.