Veritas NetBackup™ Flex Scale Installation and Configuration Guide
- Preparing for NetBackup Flex Scale deployment
- Configuring NetBackup Flex Scale
- Troubleshooting NetBackup Flex Scale deployment
- NetBackup Flex Scale upgrades and patch management
- Removing NetBackup Flex Scale
- Appendix A. Installing NetBackup Flex Scale
Performing a patch upgrade using GUI
You can download available patches using the GUI.
See About NetBackup Flex Scale upgrades and EEB.
- Use any one of the following options to log in using the user account that you created when you configured the cluster:
Using an user account with an Appliance Administrator and NetBackup Administrator role, log in to the NetBackup web interface
https://ManagementServerIPorFQDN
where ManagementServerIPorFQDN is the public IP address that you specified for the NetBackup Flex Scale management server and API gateway during the cluster configuration, and then in the left pane click Appliance management.Using an user account with an Appliance Administrator role, log in to the NetBackup Flex Scale web interface
https://ManagementServerIPorFQDN:14161
where ManagementServerIPorFQDN is the public IP address that you specified for the NetBackup Flex Scale management server and API gateway during the cluster configuration.
- In the left navigation click Settings, and then Software management.
- On the software management page click Software updates.
- To check if any upgrade packages are available on the Veritas website, click Check online for upgrade.
If any upgrade packages are available on the website, the list of available upgrade packages is displayed under Available upgrades.
- If you want to upload an upgrade package from a local system, click Upload file, select the file and then click Upload.
After uploading the package, it is displayed under Downloaded package files.
- Download the upgrade package. Under Available upgrades, next to the upgrade package that you want to download from the Actions menu (vertical ellipsis) click Download package.
After the download is complete, the package is displayed under Downloaded package files and the status is displayed as Available. To view details about the upgrade package, click the package name.
- To start the upgrade, under Downloaded package files for the upgrade package, from the Actions menu (vertical ellipsis) click Start upgrade.
When prompted for confirmation click Start upgrade.
You can view the progress of the upgrade operation on the Software management page. To view detailed status, click View details.
After the upgrade is complete, a notification about successful upgrade is displayed on the top of the page. The version displayed on the page is updated to the newer version and the status of the package in the Downloaded package files changes to Installed.
If the upgrade fails on any one of the cluster nodes, message about successful rollback is displayed in the upgrade progress details and all the nodes in the cluster are automatically rolled back to the previous version. You can view the details about the failure by clicking View tasks. To troubleshoot any issues during an upgrade, you can download upgrade logs by going to Settings > Diagnostics and selecting the Upgrade component on the Basic tab.