NetBackup™ Emergency Engineering Binary Guide
About Cohesity Services and Operations Readiness Tools
Cohesity Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) is a robust set of standalone and web-based tools that support enterprise products. For NetBackup, SORT provides the ability to collect, analyze, and report on host configurations across UNIX/Linux or Windows environments. This data is invaluable when you want to assess if your systems are ready for an initial NetBackup installation or for an upgrade.
Access SORT from the following webpage:
https://sort.veritas.com/netbackup
Once you get to the SORT page, more information is available as follows:
Installation and Upgrade Checklist
Use this tool to create a checklist to see if your system is ready for a NetBackup installation or an upgrade. This report contains all the software and the hardware compatibility information specific to the information provided. The report also includes product installation or upgrade instructions, as well as links to other references.
Hot fix and EEB Release Auditor
Use this tool to find out whether a release that you plan to install contains the hot fixes that you need.
Custom Reports
Use this tool to get recommendations for your system.
NetBackup Future Platform and Feature Plans
Use this tool to determine what items you can expect to see replaced with newer and improved functionality. The tool also provides insight about what items you can expect to see discontinued without replacement. Some of these items include certain NetBackup features, functionality, 3rd-party product integration, other product integration, applications, databases, and the OS platforms.
Help for the SORT tools is available. Click in the upper right corner of the SORT home page. You have the option to:
Page through the contents of the help similar to a book
Look for topics in the index
Search the help with the search option