Veritas Appliance Management Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (3.2)
Platform: NetBackup Appliance OS
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      About the Appliance Management Console
    3.  
      About the Appliance Management Server
    4.  
      About the Appliance Management Agent
    5.  
      About the AMS and the agent topology
  2. Appliance as an AMS
    1.  
      Configuring an appliance as AMS
    2.  
      Setting or removing the management role of an appliance as AMS
    3.  
      About the AMS user role
    4.  
      Granting the AMS role to a user or a user group
  3. Using the Appliance Management Console
    1.  
      Logging on to the Appliance Management Console
    2.  
      Using the Home page
    3.  
      Changing passwords from the AMS
    4.  
      Managing the repository
    5.  
      Limiting the bandwidth used for downloads
    6.  
      Logging out of the Appliance Management Console
  4. Managing appliances from the Home page
    1.  
      Viewing the appliance details
    2.  
      Viewing performance charts for appliance
    3.  
      Exporting the appliance performance data
    4.  
      Adding an appliance to the Appliance Management Console
    5.  
      Removing one or more agents from the Appliance Management Console
    6.  
      Managing appliance software upgrades
    7. Managing EEBs
      1.  
        Installing EEBs
      2.  
        Uninstalling EEBs
  5. Using Activity Monitor and Events
    1.  
      About the Activity Monitor
    2.  
      Accessing the Activity Monitor
    3.  
      Monitoring events
    4.  
      Accessing the MyAppliance portal
  6. Applying management updates on earlier appliance versions
    1.  
      Downloading the AMS and agent updates for earlier versions
    2.  
      Managing AMS updates
    3.  
      Performing automatic or manual agent updates
  7. Running AMS on NetBackup Virtual Appliance
    1.  
      AMS on NetBackup Virtual Appliance
    2.  
      Configuring standalone AMS on a virtual appliance without any NetBackup configuration
    3.  
      Configuring master server or media server and AMS on a virtual appliance
    4.  
      Appliance Management Console login and user password change

Granting the AMS role to a user or a user group

You can grant the AMS role to a user from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu on the AMS. Ensure that AMS is configured on the appliance where you want to grant an AMS user role.

To know more about creating a user or a user group, see the NetBackup Appliance Administrator's Guide.

To grant AMS role to a user

  1. Log on to the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu on the AMS as an Administrator. Only an Administrator can grant an AMS user role.
  2. Navigate to Main > Settings > Security > Authorization.
  3. You can grant the AMS role to a user or a group. Use either of the following commands:

    Grant AMS Users users

    Example: Grant AMS Users garry

    Here, users is a comma-separated list of local users, or registered users that have been added to the appliance from a configured remote directory service (such as LDAP, AD, or NIS).

    Grant AMS Group groups

    Here, groups is a comma-separated list of registered user groups that have been added to the appliance from a configured remote directory service (such as LDAP, AD, or NIS).

  4. You can use the List command to verify the role of the user or user group.

    Example:

    nbapp.Authorization> List
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Principal Type|  Name/login  |Access |    Role     |Principal Source|
|--------------+--------------+-------+-------------+----------------|
|User          |garry         |Allowed|AMS          |Local           |
|--------------+--------------+-------+-------------+----------------|
|Group         |NBALocalAdmins|Allowed|Administrator|Local           |
|--------------+--------------+-------+-------------+----------------|
|Group         |AMSadmin-grp  |Allowed|AMS          |Local           |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+