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Upgrade operating system for Symantec Appliance 5220
Our Information Security team, as per the annual audit,scanned the hosts for vulnerability and found that the OS on these appliance is very old - scan output message says, "Unsupported Unix Operating System". Lack of support implies that no new security patches for the product will be released by the vendor. As a result, it is likely to contain security vulnerabilities. Question: We have upgraded the Appliance to version 2.6.1.1, however that does not upgrade the underlying OS. Is there any technote from Symantec supporting that OS shall remain the same or plans on upgrading the Appliance OS etc. in detail? Thanks All.
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Itegral
10 years ago Place NetBackup Appliance
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Netbackup 5020 and 5030 appliances
I am simply looking for some information regarding these PDDO appliances. Are they being phased out as a result of the increased capacity of their MSDP counterparts (5220/5230)? I was in contact with one of our reps and they mentioned the 5030 was becoming obsolete because the 5230 was doubling in capacity. However, there is a major difference between obsolete and no longer to be developed and produced. While MSDP is cool, I feel that it still limits me in the area of concurrent operations and overall disk performance and for this reason, the 5030 still has a place in the data center. If Symantec plans to abandon the 5000 PDDO series in favor of the 5200 MSDP series, then they will need to increase performance to go with the capacity they are touting. We are currently at this cross-roads and are trying to determine our direction and it would seem the best decision is to use a 5030 with my own media server as opposed to locking myself into a MSDP solution with limited perfmance when comparing the two.
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smakovits
11 years ago Place NetBackup Appliance
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NB Appliance 5220 via BUI login failed and factory reset also failed
hi, i have appliance 5220. i configured it yesterday and change its default ip eth0 from 192.168.1.1 to 172.16.30.3 password not changed. initillay i have accessed BUI(mozilla firefox) from both ip's before change and after change but after lunch i only access it via ssh only. same password i try but no luck via Mozilla firefox Browswer. "login failed, please conatct ur sys admin" then i try to reset the appliance via ssh. Main->Support->factory reset its output given below, TA5220.Support> FactoryReset WARNING: Unable to determine current role of the appliance. The reset operation will result in: - APPLIANCE CONFIGURATION RESET - NETWORK CONFIGURATION RESET [Optional] - STORAGE CONFIGURATION RESET [Optional] APPLIANCE CONFIGURATION RESET -- Backup and deduplication software configuration will be reset. -- All the backup images will be deleted. -- Large number of backup images could delay this process. -- Admin and management user passwords will be reset to defaults. -- Any third-party OpenStorage plugins will be uninstalled. -- Any existing NetBackup users will be removed. -- Can take up to 15 minutes. >> Do you want to reset the appliance? (yes/no) yes NETWORK CONFIGURATION RESET [Optional] -- Removes all the public IP addresses. -- Deletes DNS, NTP, date and timezone settings. -- Restores 192.168.1.1 on eth0 interface NOTE: If you are not connected to 192.168.1.1, your session will terminate >> Do you want to reset network? (yes/no) yes STORAGE CONFIGURATION RESET [Optional] -- Removes all the images on the AdvancedDisk and Dedupe storage pool. -- Resets the storage partitions. -- Resets storage expansion units, if any. NOTE: If you opt out to reset storage, storage expansion units will not be reset and attached expansion units cannot be detached. >> Do you want to delete images and reset storage? (yes/no) yes >> Enter private IP address for admin port 'eth0' [192.168.1.1]: Removing existing NetBackup configuration - [Info] Stopping NetBackup processes - [Info] Removing current NetBackup configuration - [Info] Performing Deduplication Engine cleanup - [Info] Removing all storage partitions, and expansion units' storage if any on 'ta5220'... - [Info] Stopping NetBackup processes... (2 mins approx) - [Info] Checking whether the 'Deduplication' partition is present... - [Info] The 'Deduplication' partition does not exist. - [Info] Checking whether the 'AdvancedDisk' partition is present... - [Info] The 'AdvancedDisk' partition does not exist. - [Info] Removing /cat backups. Adding factory default NetBackup configuration - [Info] Creating basic NetBackup configuration on appliance 'ta5220' - [Info] Reconfiguring NetBackup databases - [Info] Creating a blank NetBackup database -> Starting NetBackup exchange service ... done -> Stopping NetBackup services ... done -> Disabling NetBackup database ... done -> Creating a new NetBackup database ... failed -> Starting NetBackup database server ... done -> Updating NetBackup database server name ... done -> Stopping NetBackup services ... done -> Starting NetBackup services ... done -> Updating NetBackup EMM database ... failed - [Error] Failed to reconfigure NetBackup database. - [Info] Reinstallation of the appliance may solve the issue. - [Info] Reinstallation of the appliance may solve the issue. Failed to reset the appliance. Retry the operation after rebooting the appliance. .TA5220.Support> kindly suggest what i do? i try many options mentioned in forum discussion but no luck. i also change the admin password via maintenance-> root user login and passwd admin for change admin password. its behaviour remains the same login via ssh is perfect but GUI login failed..... is any possibility to connect via mozilla firefox browserr? regards, Muhammad Noman Alam
mnakhan
12 years ago Place NetBackup Appliance
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5220 Appliance File System errors at Reboot - Check Forced
Hi, Had a situation last week where our 5220 running 2.5.1 as Master / Media server had file system errors detected at boot time and a check was forced. The check failed, a message was displayed to run fsck manually and the unit was put into a maintenance mode with a root login prompt, however my normal root password didn't work - it hasn't been changed from the default. The only option on the screen was to enter CONTROL-D to reboot the appliance, after trying this a number of times I booted the unit into single user mode and was able to have a look at the file system. I eventually got the system to boot butit has raised some questions. The /tmp folderwas full of log files, after clearing it out on Friday it is back up to almost 8000 files already, is there a scheduled process to clear down the /tmp folder, my DR appliance which is only used for replication has 146,000 files in /tmp. What root password is required if the unit is put into maintenance mode ?. What bootable media could be used to run a file system check with the root file system unmounted. Would it be possible to make /tmp and /log separate mount points in a future release. Thanks, Dec
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DecKy
12 years ago Place NetBackup Appliance
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Appliance 5220 for existing Windows NBU master domain
it is possible to migrate a Windows based Netbackup master domain to a netbackup appliance 5220 ?
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demo4119
13 years ago Place NetBackup Appliance
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