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  2. NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. S3 Interface for MSDP
  4. Prerequisites
NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

Prerequisites

Following are the prerequisites to configure S3 interface for MSDP:

  • The storage server operating system must be RHEL 7.6 or later.

  • It's recommended that the storage server has more than 64 GB of memory and 8 CPUs.

  • Ensure that NGINX is installed in the storage server.

    • The NGINX version must be same as the one in the corresponding official RHEL version release. Install it from the corresponding RHEL yum source.

    • Run the following command to confirm that the NGINX is ready:

      systemctl is-active <ngnix service name>

    • Configuration under /etc/<nginx service>/conf.d must be included in the NGINX configuration.

  • Ensure that the policycoreutils and policycoreutils-python packages are installed from the same RHEL yum source (RHEL server).

    Run the following command to allow S3 interface for MSDP to listen on special port: :

    semanage port -a -t http_port_t -p tcp <nginx port>

    Run the following command to allow S3 interface for MSDP to connect to the network:

    setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1

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