Installing NetBackup primary server software on Linux
The primary server manages backups, archives, and restores. The primary server is where the NetBackup catalog resides which includes the internal databases that contain information about NetBackup configuration and backups.
Veritas supports two primary server installation methods: either the NetBackup installation script or the native Linux installers. The NetBackup installation script is the standard installation method and is recommended for new users. The native Linux installers are potentially more difficult and require additional steps.
Customers who use the NetBackup installation script for their Linux primary servers only see a single change to the installation behavior. The NetBackup installation script no longer copies the installation package into the /usr/openv/pack/ directory on the client. A successful installation or upgrade is recorded in the /usr/openv/pack/install.history file.
Use the following guidelines for a new primary server installation:
Designate primary server | Designate the computer that you want to be the primary server and install the primary server software on that computer first. |
Licenses | During primary server installation, you must enter a NetBackup base product license. You must also enter licenses for any additional NetBackup product options or agents that are used on the server or its clients. These additional licenses must be entered on the primary server. If you add or make and save any license updates in the NetBackup-Java Administration Console, you must restart the console. For more information on how to administer NetBackup licenses, see the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I. |
Customer Registration Key for Veritas Usage Insights | Beginning with NetBackup 8.1.2, you must specify a Customer Registration Key for Veritas Usage Insights. More information about Veritas Usage Insights is available: See About Veritas Usage Insights. During install and upgrade to NetBackup 8.1.2, please allow the installer to copy the |
Installation method | Available installation methods include:
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To install NetBackup primary server software
- Log in to the server as root.
- Navigate to where the ESD images (downloaded files) reside and enter the command shown:
./install
- When the following message appears press Enter to continue:
Veritas Installation Script Copyright 1993 - 2016 Veritas Corporation, All Rights Reserved. Installing NetBackup Server Software Please review the VERITAS SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT located on the installation media before proceeding. The agreement includes details on the NetBackup Product Improvement Program. For NetBackup installation and upgrade information specific to your platform and to find out if your installed EEBs or hot fixes are contained in this release, check out the Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) Installation and Upgrade Checklist and Hot fix and EEB Release Auditor, respectively, at https://sort.veritas.com/netbackup. ATTENTION! To help ensure a successful upgrade to NetBackup 10.1.1, please visit the NetBackup 8.x Upgrade Portal: http://www.veritas.com/docs/000115678. Do you wish to continue? [y,n] (y) - When the following message appears press Enter to continue:
Is this host a primary server? [y/n] (y)
- If you need to perform a disaster recovery of your primary server, select Y when prompted. Press Enter for the default N.
Are you currently performing a disaster recovery of a primary server? [y/n] (n)
The disaster recovery process requires additional steps and information that is not covered in this manual. More information is available.
- When this message appears, provide the name of the service user account to be used to start most of the daemons.
Enter the name of the service user account to be used to start most of the daemons:
Be aware of the following:
Veritas does not recommend using the root user as the service user.
The
nbwebsvcuser should not be used as the service user.nbwebgrp must be a secondary group of the service user.
Ownership of the /usr/openv directory changes to the new service user account that you specify here during installation.
If you want to change the service user account after the installation, use the nbserviceusercmd --changeUser command.
The service user and service user ID must be same on all nodes of cluster.
For more details on the service user account, see: https://www.veritas.com/docs/100048220
- When the following question appears, enter the fully qualified path that contains your customer registration key.
Please enter the fully qualified path containing your customer registration key file, or enter q to quit the install script.
During install and upgrade to NetBackup 8.1.2, please allow the installer to copy the
veritas_customer_registration_key.jsonfile to its final destination. NetBackup can set the file permission and ownership correctly through this process. If you place the file onto your systems outside of the install or the upgrade process, the process may not work correctly. - For the NetBackup installation location, enter the appropriate platform information as follows:
When the following question appears, press Enter to accept the default (y).
The NetBackup and Media Manager software is built for use on <platform> hardware. Do you want to install NetBackup and Media Manager files? [y,n] (y)
When the following question appears, select where to install NetBackup and Media Manager software:
NetBackup and Media Manager are normally installed in /usr/openv. Is it OK to install in /usr/openv? [y,n] (y)
To accept the default (y), press Enter.
To change the installation location, type n and press Enter. Then enter the appropriate destination.
Additional information about installation folder restrictions is available.
- Enter the NetBackup server or Enterprise server License.
- Type y, then follow the prompts to add license keys for other NetBackup options and agents.
Although you can add licenses later, you should enter them now. If you add any licenses later through the NetBackup Administration Console, you must restart the console.
- After all licenses are entered, type q to quit the License Key Utility and complete the server software installation.
- Verify or enter the correct computer name when prompted by the following message:
Installing NetBackup Enterprise Server version: 10.1.1 If this machine will be using a different network interface than the default (name), the name of the preferred interface should be used as the configured server name. If this machine will be part of a cluster, the virtual name should be used as the configured server name. The domainname of your server appears to be "domain". You may choose to use this domainname in your configured NetBackup server name, or simply use "name" as the configured NetBackup server name. Would you like to use "name.domain" as the configured NetBackup server name of this machine? [y, n] (y)
Note:
Incorrect information for the domain name results in failures during the configuration of Authentication Broker and NetBackup Access Controls. To correct this problem, use the bpnbaz -configureauth command to configure Authentication Broker. More information about the bpnbaz -configureauth command is available.
To accept the displayed (default) name, press Enter.
To change the displayed (default) name, type n and enter the name that you want.
For a clustered NetBackup server, enter the virtual name for the NetBackup server and not the actual local host name.
- Identify or verify the primary server by answering the following question when it appears:
Is <name> the primary server? [y, n] (y)
To accept the displayed name (which is the name that you identified in the previous step), press Enter.
If you entered a virtual name for the server in the previous step, the installation script presents the following question:
Is this server part of a cluster installation?
If the answer is yes, press y and answer the series of cluster configuration questions that appear.
If the answer is no, press n.
- Identify whether there are any media servers for this primary server by answering the following question when it appears:
Do you want to add any media servers now? [y, n] (n)
If there are no media servers for this primary server, press Enter and proceed to the next step.
If there are media servers for this primary server, type y and enter the name of each media server.
When you enter the media server names, you must enter the computer name and the domain name. For example:
alpha.domain.com
Where alpha is the computer name and domain.com is the domain name.
The media server names that you enter here are added to the bp.conf file on the primary server, automatically. After you install the media server software later, the primary server can then communicate with the media servers immediately.
To add a media server to an existing and an operational NetBackup environment, you cannot use the procedures in this guide. For complete details on how to add a media server to an existing and an operational NetBackup environment, see the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I.
- When the following message appears, press Enter and accept the default name of the EMM server. You must configure EMM on the primary server. All primary servers must have their own EMM configuration. Remote EMM or shared EMM is no longer supported.
NetBackup maintains a centralized catalog (separate from the image catalog) for data related to media and device configuration, device management, storage units, hosts and host aliases, media server status, NDMP credentials, and other information. This is managed by the Enterprise Media Manager server. Enter the name of the Enterprise Media Manager (default: <name>)
- Answer the following question when it appears:
Do you want to start the NetBackup job-related processes so backups and restores can be initiated? [y, n] (y)
If you have (or want to have) a clustered NetBackup server, type n.
For non-clustered installations, press Enter to accept the default answer (y) and start the NetBackup processes and the EMM server.
You must start these processes now because the EMM server must be running when you install any media servers later.
- For a clustered NetBackup primary server, repeat these steps on every node on which you want to run NetBackup.
- (Conditional) On a clustered NetBackup primary server, you must obtain the Certificate Authority certificate and the host certificate for each inactive node. More information is available:
See Generate a certificate on the inactive nodes of a clustered primary server.
- After your initial installation is complete, you can install any other NetBackup add-on products (such as language packages).
- (Conditional) If you use an external certificate authority (ECA) in your environment, configure the ECA now. More information is available:
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100044300
For more information, see the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide and refer to the chapter on external CA and external certificates.
- (Conditional) If you plan to configure customized settings for your Tomcat web server, determine if those settings can persist across upgrades. More information is available:
- Complete the NetBackup installation as indicated.