NetBackup 9.0.0.1 Application Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (2.0)
Platform: Flex Appliance OS
  1. Product overview
    1.  
      Introduction to NetBackup applications for Flex Appliance
    2.  
      About the Flex Appliance documentation
    3.  
      NetBackup 9.0.0.1 application new features, enhancements, and changes
    4.  
      Supported upgrade paths to this release
    5.  
      Operational notes
  2. Geting started
    1.  
      Prerequisites before you can create NetBackup application instances
    2.  
      Installing the NetBackup Administration Console and client packages
  3. Creating NetBackup application instances
    1. Creating application instances
      1.  
        Creating a NetBackup master server instance
      2.  
        Creating a NetBackup media server instance
      3.  
        Creating a NetBackup WORM storage server instance
  4. Managing NetBackup application instances
    1.  
      Managing application instances from Flex Appliance and NetBackup
    2. Accessing NetBackup master and media server instances for management tasks
      1. Managing users on a master or media server instance
        1.  
          Adding and removing local users on a master or media server instance
        2.  
          Connecting a remote user domain to a master or media server instance
        3.  
          Changing a user password on a master or media server instance
      2. Running NetBackup commands on a master or media server application instance
        1.  
          Creating a NetBackup touch file on a master or media server application instance
      3.  
        Monitoring NetBackup services on a NetBackup master server instance
      4.  
        Mounting an NFS share on a NetBackup master server instance
      5.  
        Setting environment variables on master and media server instances
      6.  
        Storing custom data on a master or media server instance
      7.  
        Modifying or disabling the nbdeployutil utility on a master server instance
      8.  
        Establishing trust with a NetBackup 7.7.3 master server instance
    3. Accessing NetBackup WORM storage server instances for management tasks
      1. About the NetBackup WORM storage server shell
        1.  
          About the dedupe command
        2.  
          About the retention command
        3.  
          About the setting command
        4.  
          About the support command

Monitoring NetBackup services on a NetBackup master server instance

The NetBackup services health monitoring feature allows Flex Appliance to monitor critical NetBackup services on master server instances. If any of the services go down, the appliance attempts to restart them.

This feature is available for NetBackup 8.3.0.1 or later master server instances on appliances running Flex Appliance 2.0 or later. The appliance must be on version 2.0 or later before you create or upgrade the instance. If the appliance was running an earlier version when you created or upgraded the instance, health monitoring is not available.

Note:

Make sure to disable the health monitoring before you start any maintenance activity.

Use the following procedures to enable or disable NetBackup services health monitoring.

Enabling NetBackup services health monitoring

To enable NetBackup services health monitoring

  1. Log in to the instance as the appadmin user.
  2. Enter the following command to run a precheck before you enable health monitoring:

    sudo /opt/veritas/vxapp-manage/health precheck

  3. Verify that the precheck did not return any errors, then run the following command:

    sudo /opt/veritas/vxapp-manage/health enable

  4. Verify the health monitoring status with the following command:

    sudo /opt/veritas/vxapp-manage/health status

Disabling NetBackup services health monitoring

To disable NetBackup services health monitoring

  1. Log in to the instance as the appadmin user.
  2. Enter the following command:

    sudo /opt/veritas/vxapp-manage/health disable

  3. Verify the health monitoring status with the following command:

    sudo /opt/veritas/vxapp-manage/health status