Veritas Access Appliance Initial Configuration Guide
- Getting to know the Access Appliance
- Preparing to configure the appliance
- Configuring the appliance for the first time
- Getting started with the Veritas Access GUI
- Storage management
- Network connection management
- Configuring network address settings on the appliance nodes
- Configuring static routes on the appliance
- Configuring DNS settings on the appliance
- Configuring host name on the appliance
- About the maximum transmission unit size on the appliance
- About the Veritas Remote Management Console
- Setting the date and time on the appliance
- Monitoring the appliance
- Resetting the appliance to factory settings
- Appliance security
- About Access Appliance security
- About Access appliance user account privileges
- About forced password changes
- Changing the Maintenance user account password
- About the Access Appliance intrusion detection system
- About the Access Appliance intrusion prevention system
- About Access appliance operating system security
- About data security on the Access appliance
- About data integrity on the Access appliance
- Recommended IPMI settings on the Access appliance
About the Access Appliance intrusion prevention system
The appliance intrusion prevention system (IPS) consists of a custom Symantec Data Center Security (SDCS) policy that runs automatically at startup. The IPS policy can proactively block unwanted resource access behaviors.
The following list contains some of the IPS policy features:
Restricted access to the root account by maintenance user.
Self-protection for the SDCS agent itself to ensure that the security features and monitoring features of SDCS are not compromised.
The IPS policy is automatically enabled on the appliance with factory-installed image. You do not require to manually deploy the policy from an SDCS server. As a part of the IPS policy, the elevate command for the maintenance user is blocked by default. The maintenance user must override the policy to run the elevate command.