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Veritas NetBackup™ Virtual Appliance Documentation

Last Published: 2023-07-31

Product(s): Appliances (5.1.1)

Platform: NetBackup Virtual Appliance

Getting to know the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
1. NetBackup Virtual Appliance product description
2. NetBackup Virtual Appliance supported features
3. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance documentation
4. NetBackup Virtual Appliance 5.1.1 new features, enhancements, and changes
5. Known limitations of the NetBackup Virtual Appliance 5.1.1 release
6. Operational Notes for the NetBackup Virtual Appliance 5.1.1 release
Preparing to deploy the appliance
1. NetBackup Virtual Appliance product files (OVF templates)
2. NetBackup Virtual Appliance deployment methods
3. NetBackup Virtual Appliance deployment guidelines
  1. Configuration overview for NetBackup Virtual Appliance MSDP cloud applications
  2. NetBackup Virtual Appliance initial deployment checklist
Deploying and configuring the appliance
1. How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined primary and media server
2. How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance media server
3. How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance primary server
Post initial configuration procedures
1. About modifying the NetBackup Virtual Appliance settings
2. Adding a permanent license key if an evaluation license key expires
3. Managing license keys on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
Appliance common tasks
1. Common tasks in NetBackup Virtual Appliance
Storage management
1. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance storage configuration
2. About OpenStorage plugin installation
  1. Installing the OpenStorage plugin
  2. Uninstalling the OpenStorage plugin
Deduplication pool catalog backup and recovery
1. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance deduplication pool catalog backup policy
2. Automatic configuration of the NetBackup Virtual Appliance deduplication pool catalog backup policy
3. Manually configuring the NetBackup Virtual Appliance deduplication pool catalog backup policy
4. Manually updating the NetBackup Virtual Appliance deduplication pool catalog backup policy
5. Recovering the NetBackup Virtual Appliance deduplication pool catalog
Network connection management
1. About IPv4-IPv6-based network support
2. Network settings for the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
3. Configuring DNS and host name mapping for the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
4. Setting the date and time on a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
5. Configuring static routes on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
6. Expanding the bandwidth on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
Managing users
1. About managing NetBackup Virtual Appliance users
2. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance account types
3. Adding NetBackup Virtual Appliance users
4. Deleting NetBackup Virtual Appliance users
5. Adding NetBackup Virtual Appliance user groups
6. Deleting NetBackup Virtual Appliance user groups
7. Granting roles to NetBackup Virtual Appliance users and user groups
8. Revoking roles from NetBackup Virtual Appliance users and user groups
9. About user name and password specifications
  1. About STIG-compliant password policy rules
10. Changing NetBackup Virtual Appliance user passwords
11. About password management and recovery
12. About authenticating LDAP users
13. About authenticating Active Directory users
  1. Adding an Active Directory server configuration
  2. Unconfiguring Active Directory user authentication on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
14. About authentication using smart cards and digital certificates
15. Generic user authentication guidelines
16. About user authorization on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
17. Creating NetBackup administrator user accounts
18. Deleting NetBackup administrator user accounts
Using the appliance
1. About configuring Host parameters for your appliance on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
2. About Copilot functionality and Share management
3. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance as a VMware backup host
  1. NetBackup Virtual Appliance as backup host: component overview
  2. Notes on NetBackup Virtual Appliance as a VMware backup host
4. About running NetBackup commands from the appliance
5. About mounting a remote NFS
  1. Mounting a remote NFS drive
  2. Unmounting an NFS drive
6. About Auto Image Replication from a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
7. Generating certificates
Monitoring the appliance
1. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance alerts
2. Setting up email notifications for a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
3. Setting up SNMP notifications for a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
4. Enabling and disabling Call Home from the appliance shell menu
5. Configuring a Call Home proxy server from the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
6. About SNMP
  1. About the Management Information Base (MIB)
7. About Call Home
  1. Understanding the Call Home workflow
  2. About the Product Improvement Program
8. About AutoSupport
9. About storage email alerts
Appliance security
1. About Symantec Data Center Security on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
2. About data security
3. About data integrity
4. About data classification
5. About data encryption
  1. KMS support
6. About SSL usage
7. About implementing external certificates
8. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance intrusion detection system
9. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance intrusion prevention system
10. Major components of the NetBackup Virtual Appliance OS
11. OS STIG hardening for NetBackup Virtual Appliance
12. FIPS 140-2 conformance for NetBackup Virtual Appliance
13. Disable user access to the NetBackup appliance operating system
14. Manage support access to the maintenance shell
15. About the appliance login banner
16. Setting the appliance login banner
  1. Creating the appliance login banner
  2. Removing the appliance login banner
17. Log Forwarding feature overview
Upgrading the appliance
1. About upgrading to NetBackup Virtual Appliance software version 5.1.1
2. Requirements and best practices for upgrading NetBackup appliances
  1. Upgrade time estimation
3. Pre-upgrade tasks for appliance upgrades
4. Methods for downloading appliance software release updates
  1. Downloading software updates directly to a NetBackup appliance
  2. Downloading software updates to a NetBackup appliance using a client share
5. Installing a NetBackup Virtual Appliance software update using the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
6. Troubleshooting upgrade issues
NetBackup client upgrades with VxUpdate
1. About VxUpdate
2. VxUpdate repository management
3. Deployment policy management
4. Manually initiating upgrades from the primary server using VxUpdate
5. Manually initiating upgrades from the client using VxUpdate
6. Deployment job status
Appliance restore
1. About appliance restore
2. Creating an appliance checkpoint from the appliance shell menu
3. Rollback to an appliance checkpoint from the appliance shell menu
4. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance factory reset
5. Factory reset best practices
6. How to factory reset the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
Decommissioning and Reconfiguring
1. About decommissioning a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
2. Decommissioning a NetBackup Virtual Appliance with the media server role
3. Migrating from NetBackup Cloud Catalyst Appliance to MSDP direct cloud tiering
Troubleshooting
1. About troubleshooting the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
2. About contacting Technical Support
3. Determining the NetBackup Virtual Appliance serial number
4. About disaster recovery
  1. Recovering a NetBackup appliance primary server using NetBackup catalog restore
5. About NetBackup support utilities
  1. NetBackup Domain Network Analyzer (NBDNA)
  2. NetBackup Support Utility (NBSU)
6. Troubleshooting NetBackup Virtual Appliance deployment or initial configuration issues
7. Error messages displayed on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
8. NetBackup status codes applicable for NetBackup Virtual Appliance
9. Installing an EEB
10. Rolling back an EEB using the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
Appliance logging
1. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance log files
2. Viewing log files using the Support command
3. Where to find NetBackup Virtual Appliance log files using the Browse command
4. Enabling and disabling VxMS logging
5. Gathering device logs on a NetBackup virtual appliance
6. Moving the log data
7. About forwarding logs to an external server
Commands overview
1. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
2. Logging in to the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
3. Using the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
4. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu command views
Appendix A. Appliance commands
1. Appliance > Primary
2. Appliance > Media
3. Appliance > ShowDedupPassword
4. Appliance > Status
5. Appliance > Configure
Appendix B. Manage commands
1. Manage > Software > Delete
2. Manage > Software > Download
3. Manage > Software > List
4. Manage > Software > Install
5. Manage > Software > Share
6. Manage > Software > Readme
7. Manage > Software > Rollback
8. Manage > Software > Cancel
9. Manage > Software > DownloadAnalyzer
10. Manage > Software > DownloadProgress
11. Manage > Software > UpgradeStatus
12. Manage > Software > VxUpdate
13. Manage > Storage > Show
14. Manage > Storage > Add
15. Manage > Storage > Create
16. Manage > Storage > Delete
17. Manage > Storage > Edit
18. Manage > Storage > Monitor
19. Manage > Storage > Move
20. Manage > Storage > Remove
21. Manage > Storage > Resize
22. Manage > Storage > Scan
23. Manage > OpenStorage > Install
24. Manage > OpenStorage > List
25. Manage > OpenStorage > Readme
26. Manage > OpenStorage > Share
27. Manage > OpenStorage > Uninstall
28. Manage > MountPoints > List
29. Manage > MountPoints > Mount
30. Manage > MountPoints > Unmount
31. Manage > License
32. Manage > Certificates > Generate
33. Manage > Certificates > Delete
34. Manage > NetBackupCLI > Create
35. Manage > NetBackupCLI > Delete
36. Manage > NetBackupCLI > List
Appendix C. Monitor commands
1. Monitor > Uptime
2. Monitor > Who
3. Monitor > NetworkStatus
4. Monitor > Top
5. Monitor > MemoryStatus
6. Monitor > SDCS
7. Monitor > NetBackup
8. Monitor > Hardware
Appendix D. Network commands
1. Network > Configure
2. Network > Date
3. Network > DNS
4. Network > Gateway
5. Network > Hostname
6. Network > Hosts
7. Network > IPv4
8. Network > IPv6
9. Network > LinkAggregation
10. Network > NetStat
11. Network > NTPServer
12. Network > Ping
13. Network > SetProperty
14. Network > Show
15. Network > TimeZone
16. Network > TraceRoute
17. Network > Unconfigure
18. Network > WANOptimization
Appendix E. Reports commands
1. Reports > Deduplication
2. Reports > Process
Appendix F. Settings commands
1. Settings > Deduplication
2. Settings > LifeCycle
3. Settings > LogForwarding
4. Settings > NetBackup
5. Settings > NetBackup DNAT
6. Settings > NetBackup NATServers
7. Settings > Password
8. Settings > SystemLocale
9. Settings > Share
10. Settings > Sysctl
11. Settings > Notifications > LoginBanner
12. Settings > Security > Authentication > AccountStatus
13. Settings > Security > Authentication > LDAP
14. Settings > Security > Authentication > ActiveDirectory
15. Settings > Security > Authentication > LocalUser
16. Main > Settings > Security > Authentication > CIFSShare
17. Settings > Security > Authorization
18. Main > Settings > Security > Certificate
19. Main > Settings > Security > Certificate > CertificateSigningRequest
20. Main > Settings > Security > STIG
21. Main > Settings > Security > FIPS
22. Main > Settings > Security > SecurityLevel
23. Main > Settings > Security > Sessions
24. Settings > Alerts > CallHome
25. Settings > Alerts > SNMP
26. Settings > Alerts > Email
27. Settings > Alerts > Hardware
Appendix G. Support commands
1. Support > Checkpoint
2. Support > Cleanup > CleanMonInvData
3. Support > DataCollect
4. Support > Disk
5. Support > Errors
6. Support > FactoryReset
7. Support > InfraServices
8. Support > InstantAccess
9. Support > iostat
10. Support > LogBrowser
11. Support > Logs
12. Support > Maintenance
13. Support > Messages
14. Support > NBDNA
15. Support > Nbperfchk
16. Support > NBSU
17. Support > Processes
18. Support > Reboot
19. Support > Service
20. Support > Shutdown
21. Support > Storage Create LogPartition
22. Support > Storage Create NDMPLogPartition
23. Support > Storage SanityCheck
24. Support > Storage Reset
25. Support > System
26. Support > Test
Appendix H. Available commands for a NetBackupCLI user
1. Command
2. Password

VxUpdate repository management

The appliance VxUpdate commands control the VxUpdate package repository contents. Do not attempt to manually modify or update the repository without the use of the VxUpdate commands. If you populate the repository with all the client packages for all platforms, you need approximately 20 GB of space on the appliance primary server. This amount does not include any engineering binaries or hotfixes. Note that this is the approximate amount of space that is required for all packages for all platforms for each NetBackup version.

The AddPkg option verifies and populates the repository with supported VxUpdate client and NetBackup EEB packages. Veritas signs the VxUpdate packages. Attempts to populate the repository with unofficial or unsigned packages fails. These packages are referenced in the deployment policies that install NetBackup on target hosts. When you use the AddPkg option to populate the repository, be mindful of the required disk space. The primary server must have enough disk space to store packages for the NetBackup versions and platforms that are specified in deployment policies.

The package types you can load into the repository include:

VxUpdate client packages
You can upgrade NetBackup clients to a newer version of NetBackup with VxUpdate. These packages are slightly different from standard NetBackup client packages. The packages include additional components to support the various VxUpdate operations.
Emergency binaries (EEBs) and hotfixes
You can use VxUpdate to deploy emergency binaries and hotfixes to NetBackup 8.1.2 and later clients. You can obtain VxUpdate formatted EEBs from Support in the same way you obtain traditional EEBs. These EEBs are only for NetBackup version 8.1.2 and later. Any client hotfixes that Veritas creates for NetBackup 8.1.2 and later releases include VxUpdate formatted fixes.

VxUpdate formatted packages are available from the Veritas Support licensing portal. Emergency binaries and hotfixes are obtained from the standard locations. You should download the VxUpdate versions of these packages and place them in a location accessible to the primary server. Once they are accessible to your primary server, you can add them to the VxUpdate package repository.

Downloading Veritas approved NetBackup client packages

Go to the Veritas Support licensing portal.
Enter your user name and password.
Select Licensing.
Enter or select your account number.
Select Apply Filters
Select your account number from the resulting table.
This action presents a listing of your entitlements. From here, you have the ability to download the associated software.
Select Downloads
Use the filter options to limit the results to the NetBackup product line and the appropriate product version.
Add your filters and select Apply Filters.
Under Actions, select the download icon
In the resulting table, select the VxUpdate packages and then select Download.
The client packages follow the naming convention shown: vxupdate_nbclient_version_operatingsystem_platform.sja
Download the files to a local machine, then upload the files to /inst/patch/incoming on the appliance. See Downloading software updates to a NetBackup appliance using a client share.
Run the following command to verify that all packages have been downloaded and extracted:
Main > Manage > Software > List Downloaded
After you have verified that all of the downloaded and extracted packages are listed, add the packages to the NetBackup package repository.
See Adding packages to the VxUpdate package repository.

Adding packages to the VxUpdate package repository

VxUpdate can only use the Veritas signed packages that you add to the VxUpdate package repository. Use the VxUpdate AddPkg option to add packages to the repository. This command also adds metadata to the EMM database and places the packages in the repository directory structure on the file system. You can use the Listpkgs option to list the contents of the package repository to verify that a package was added.

To add packages to the repository

On the appliance primary server, log in to the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu as an administrator and navigate to the following menu:
Main > Manage > Software > VxUpdate
Run the AddPkg package_name option, where package_name is the client package name.
Example: AddPkg vxupdate_nbclient_8.2_suse_ppc64le.sja
To view the repository and verify that the package was added, run the ListPkgs option.
To see the package details, run the ShowPkgDetails n option, where n is the package ID number.

Deleting packages from the VxUpdate package repository

You can delete packages from the repository either when they are no longer needed or to conserve disk space. For example, delete the NetBackup 8.1.2 packages once all of the clients are upgraded to that version. Use the DelPkg option to delete packages. To verify that a package was deleted, use the ListPkgs option to list all existing packages.

To delete packages from the repository

On the appliance primary server, log in to the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu as an administrator and navigate to the following menu:
Main > Manage > Software > VxUpdate
To view a list of the packages in the repository, run the ListPkgs option and take note of the ID number that identifies each package.
Run the DelPkg ID option to delete any unused packages.
Example: DelPkg 1

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