Veritas Flex Appliance Getting Started and Administration Guide
- Product overview
- Release notes
- Flex Appliance 3.0 new features, enhancements, and changes
- Flex Appliance 3.1 new features, enhancements, and changes
- Flex Appliance 3.2 new features, enhancements, and changes
- Flex Appliance 3.3 new features, enhancements, and changes
- Supported upgrade and update paths to this release
- Operational notes
- Flex Appliance 3.0 release content
- Flex Appliance 3.1 release content
- Flex Appliance 3.2 release content
- Flex Appliance 3.3 release content
- Getting started
- Initial configuration guidelines and checklist
- Performing the initial configuration
- Adding a node
- Accessing and using the Flex Appliance Shell
- Accessing and using the Flex Appliance Console
- Managing the appliance from the Appliance Management Console
- Setting the date and time for appliance nodes
- Common tasks in Flex Appliance
- Managing network 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 a remote user domain to the Flex Appliance Console
- Editing a remote user domain in the Flex Appliance Console
- Importing a remote user or user group to the Flex Appliance Console
- Managing single sign-on (SSO)
- Managing identity providers (IDPs)
- Importing a single sign-on user or user group to the Flex Appliance Console
- Managing user authentication with smart cards or digital certificates
- Changing a local user password in the Flex Appliance Console
- Expiring local user passwords in the Flex Appliance Console
- Unlocking a local user account in the Flex Appliance Console
- Removing users from the Flex Appliance Console
- Changing the password policy
- Changing the hostadmin user password in the Flex Appliance Shell
- Changing the sysadmin user password in the Veritas Remote Management Interface
- Using Flex Appliance
- Managing the repository
- Creating application instances
- Managing application instances from Flex Appliance and NetBackup
- Managing application instances from Flex Appliance
- Upgrading application instances
- Updating an application instance to a newer revision
- About Flex Appliance updates
- Appliance security
- Monitoring the appliance
- Registering an appliance
- Configuring alerts
- Monitoring the appliance from the System Health Insights portal
- Viewing the hardware status
- Viewing hardware faults
- Viewing system data
- Clearing the hardware status
- Forwarding logs
- Providing access for external monitoring
- Revoking access for external monitoring
- Reconfiguring the appliance
- Troubleshooting guidelines
Updating an application instance to a newer revision
Periodically, new revisions of applications are released to address security updates. When a new revision is released, it is posted on the Download Center with a new file name that includes the revision number after the version.
For example, the file VRTSflex-netbackup-9.1.0.1-0043x86_64.rpm indicates that the application version is 9.1.0.1, and the revision number is 0043.
Use the following procedure to update an application instance to a newer revision.
Note:
The Flex Appliance Console does not currently show the revision numbers of your application instances. To determine the current revision of an instance, log in to the Flex Appliance Shell and run the following commands:
support shell
docker inspect flex.io/netbackup/main:<version> --format='{{index .Config.Labels "image.revision"'}}
Where <version> is the version number of the application instance.
To update an instance to a newer revision
- Add the new revision of the application to the repository.
- Restart the instance.
Note:
If you have more than one instance of the application, they all get updated to the newer revision the next time they are restarted.