Veritas Access Appliance Upgrade Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (7.4.3)
Platform: Veritas 3340,Access Appliance OS

Downloading software updates directly to an Access 3340 appliance node

Use this procedure to download a software release update to an appliance node.

For a rolling upgrade, download the package to one of the nodes in the cluster. For a node-by-node upgrade, you need to download the package to both the nodes.

For more details about the upgrade methods, See About the Veritas Access 3340 Appliance upgrade.

To download software release updates directly to an appliance node, complete the following steps:

  1. Open an SSH session and log on to the appliance as an administrator using the Access Appliance shell menu.

    The Main_Menu view is displayed.

  2. To determine if a software update is available from the Veritas Support website, enter the following command:

    Main_Menu > Manage > Software > List AvailablePatch

    The software release update that is available for installation is displayed.

    Note the name of the software release update package name. For example, VRTSaccess-app-update-7.4.3-1.x86_64.rpm

  3. To download the available software update, enter the following command:

    Main_Menu > Manage > Software > Download update_name

    where update_name is the name of the software release update package.

    For example:

    Main_Menu > Manage > Software > Download VRTSaccess-app-update-7.4.3-1.x86_64.rpm

    You can view the download progress by using the Software > DownloadProgress command.

    nbapp914.Software> DownloadProgress
VRTSaccess-app-update-7.4.3-1.x86_64.rpm downloading (506M/3.4G)
  4. To verify that the software update has downloaded successfully, enter the following command:

    Main_Menu > Manage > Software > List Downloaded

    The downloaded software update is validated and details such as the patch name, size, and version are displayed.