Veritas Access Appliance 8.4 Upgrade Guide

To download the software release update on an appliance node using an NFS client share, complete the following steps:

1. If not already done so, open an SSH session and log on to the appliance as an administrator using the Access Appliance Shell Menu.
2. To open an NFS share, enter the following command:

   system software share open

3. Mount the appliance share directory as follows.

   For a Linux NFS share:

   mkdir -p /mount/Node_management_IP

   mount Node_management_IP:/inst/patch/appliance/available /mount/Node_management_IP

   where Node_management_IP is the IP address that is assigned to eth1 of each node.

4. Download the upgrade package and the SHA256 checksum.

   • Release update

     Download the release update by clicking Downloads on the Veritas Support website

   • SHA256 checksum

     Copy the text file that contains the SHA256 checksum. The checksum is displayed when you click the VRTSaccess-app-update-8.3-1.x86_64.rpm release update.

5. Run the following command to compute the checksum of the rpm file:

   sha256sum VRTSaccess-app-update-8.3-1.x86_64.rpm

   Verify that the SHA256 checksum matches the checksum that you downloaded from the Veritas Support website.

6. Copy this release update to the mounted share.

   Note:

   To avoid any issues, ensure that you do not run commands on the appliance nodes when you copy the update.

7. Unmount the shared directory after copying the update.
8. Close the NFS share by using the command:

   system software share close

9. List the downloaded files by using the command:

   system software downloaded

   The downloaded update is validated and details such as the patch name, size, and version are displayed.