Veritas NetBackup™ Upgrade Guide
- Introduction
- About the NetBackup 8.1.2 Upgrade Guide
- About changes in NetBackup 8.1.2
- Veritas Smart Meter introduced
- Upgrades from NetBackup 7.6.0.4 and earlier are not supported
- HP-UX and AIX support change
- Newer Red Hat Linux compilers used with NetBackup 8.1.2
- VxUpdate replaces update_clients script in NetBackup 8.1.2
- Port 443 required for NetBackup web user interface
- About MSDP
- Performance issues with upgrades to NetBackup 8.1.2 from NetBackup 8.0 and earlier
- About certificate requirements for NetBackup 8.1
- SCCM and Chef deployment tools and documentation now available
- Potential required changes for NetApp clusters
- About automatic file changes from an upgrade
- Errors when Bare Metal Restore information is replicated using Auto Image Replication
- Known catalog backup limitation
- Available NetBackup upgrade methods
- About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools
- Recommended SORT procedures for new installations
- Recommended SORT procedures for upgrades
- About the NetBackup preinstall checker
- Planning for an upgrade
- About planning a NetBackup 8.1.2 upgrade
- How to plan for an upgrade to NetBackup 8.1.2
- About Veritas Smart Meter
- Best practices for Veritas Smart Meter
- Creating the user account to support the NetBackup web server
- About NetBackup 8.1.2 support for Fibre Transport Media Server with RHEL 7.5
- MSDP changes in NetBackup 8.1
- About security certificates for NetBackup hosts
- Master server upgrade
- About master server upgrades
- Preinstall procedure for upgrading to NetBackup 8.1.2
- Performing local, remote, or clustered server upgrades on Windows systems
- Performing silent upgrades on Windows systems
- Upgrading UNIX/Linux server software to NetBackup 8.1.2
- Post-install procedure for upgrading to NetBackup 8.1.2
- About NetBackup startup and shutdown scripts
- Completing your system update after an upgrade
- Media server upgrade
- MSDP upgrade for NetBackup
- NetBackup Deployment Management with VxUpdate
- Appendix A. Reference
- NetBackup master server web server user and group creation
- Generate a certificate on the inactive nodes of a clustered master server
- About the NetBackup Java Runtime Environment
- About the NetBackup web user interface
- About the NetBackup answer file
- Update cloud configuration file on the master server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 8.1.2
- About NetBackup software availability
- Additional post-upgrade steps for NetApp clusters
- Using NetApp disk arrays with Replication Director
- About compatibility between NetBackup versions
- Installation and upgrade requirements for UNIX and Linux
- Installation and upgrade requirements for Windows and Windows clusters
- Requirements for Windows cluster installations and upgrades
- Upgrading clients after servers are upgraded
- Install and upgrade of the UNIX and Linux client binaries with native installers
- Removing a clustered media server by migrating all data to a new media server
- Disabling the connection between your NetBackup OpsCenter server and your NetBackup Master Server
- Post upgrade procedures for Amazon cloud storage servers
Best practices for Veritas Smart Meter
Veritas suggests certain best practices for use of the Smart Meter tool.
Smart Meter is compatible with Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge. Veritas does not recommend using Microsoft Internet Explorer, as it does not render all information correctly.
Confirm your site's ability to transmit secure web traffic.
Smart Meter uses HTTPS to send relevant information. Your master server must allow outbound HTTPS traffic to take advantage of the automatic upload feature. Manual uploads require HTTPS traffic from the upload location.
Your customer registration key is not a license key.
The registration key is required for Smart Meter to work, but it is not your NetBackup license key. The customer registration key is downloaded from the Smart Meter website and is specific to Smart Meter.
If you have multiple account IDs, when you download your customer registration key, you may have an aggregate registration key. This aggregate registration key includes all of your account IDs. You can use the aggregate key on all of your master servers. NetBackup does, however, prompt you to assign the specific key with a specific account ID to a specific master server. If you want, you can use this aggregate key for all your master servers.
During install and upgrade to NetBackup 8.1.2, please allow the installer to copy the
veritas_customer_registration_key.jsonfile to its final destination. NetBackup can set the file permission and ownership correctly through this process. If you place the file onto your systems outside of the install or the upgrade process, the process may not work correctly.Be aware that NetBackup does not support the short file name format (8.3 format) for the customer registration key file name.
For answers to frequently asked questions, visit the URL shown:
https://help.veritas.com/Welcome?context=veritas_smart_meter&token=vsm_nbu_faqs
To download the customer registration key
- Log into Veritas Smart Meter with Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Microsoft Edge.
- Navigate to the Customer Registration Keys page.
- Download the appropriate customer registration key for your master server.