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Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Upgrade Guide

Last Published: 2017-12-19

Product(s): Appliances (3.1)

Introduction
1. About upgrades to NetBackup appliance software version 3.1 and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system
Upgrade planning
1. Guidelines and best practices for upgrading NetBackup appliances
  1. Upgrade time estimation
  2. Upgrade guidelines
Pre-upgrade tasks
1. Pre-upgrade tasks for appliance upgrades
Performing the upgrade
1. Methods for downloading appliance software release updates
2. Installing a NetBackup appliance software update using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
Post upgrade tasks
1. Post upgrade tasks for 3.1 upgrades
Troubleshooting
1. Troubleshooting upgrade issues

About the Appliance Install Manager

Starting with the 3.1 release, the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu includes the Appliance Install Manager (AIM) window. The AIM window appears in the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu, after the third reboot during the upgrade process. This window shows the estimated completion time, the upgrade progress bar, the main upgrade steps, the upgrade logs, and other useful information.

The AIM window has the following view modes:

Main
This default view shows the main upgrade steps and task results.
Verbose
This view shows the detailed upgrade logs.

To change from the Main view to the Verbose view, press the V key.

To change from the Verbose view to the Main view, press the M key.

To close the AIM window and return to the shell menu, press the S key.

To show the AIM window again, enter the following command:

Main_Menu > Manage > Software >UpgradeStatus