Managing hardware vendor packages
The vendor packages are preinstalled on out of the box appliance nodes. You do not have to install anything on the raw nodes after you take them out of the box. Use the following procedure if you want to install third-party vendor packages. If you want to install third-party vendor packages, download the required vendor packages from the hardware vendor site. You can uninstall or upgrade the vendor packages after they are installed.
To install vendor packages after the cluster is configured:
- Use any one of the following options to log on using the user account that you created when you configured the cluster:
Use a user account with both Appliance Administrator and NetBackup Administrator role, or a user account with only an Appliance administrator role to log on to the NetBackup Flex Scale web UI
https://ManagementServerIPorFQDN/webuiwhere ManagementServerIPorFQDN is the public IP address or the FQDN that you specified for the NetBackup Flex Scale management server during the cluster configuration, and then in the left pane click Cluster Management > Cluster settings > Software management.Use a user account with an Appliance Administrator role to log on to the NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure management UI
https://ManagementServerIPorFQDN:14161where ManagementServerIPorFQDN is the public IP address or the FQDN that you specified for the NetBackup Flex Scale management server during the cluster configuration, and then in the left pane click Settings > Software management.
Note:
If you access the NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure management UI by using the short host name from a node, set the DNS settings (name server, domain name, and search domain) or ensure that the entry for mapping the short host name to an IP address exists in the hosts file of the node.
- On the Software management page, click Vendor packages.
- On the Vendor packages tab click Verify.
- Do one of the following:
If there is a change in required vendor packages, download the existing
vendor_utilities.jsonfile, edit the file to update the vendor package list, and then upload the updated JSON file. The uploaded JSON file replaces the existing file and is now used a reference for the list of vendor packages that must be present on the node. To download the JSON file, on the Vendor packages tab click Download JSON file. Edit the downloaded file. To upload the updated file, click Next > Upload JSON file. Click Verify.If there is no change in the required vendor packages, click Next > Verify
- If the required vendor packages are missing or the installed package version is earlier than what is listed in the JSON file, the node is marked as unhealthy and the details about the missing packages are displayed for each node. Click Add.
- Download the required vendor packages from the vendor site.
- Upload the vendor packages to the driver node. On the Vendor packages tab, click Add and select the vendor packages that you downloaded. The selected vendor packages are uploaded to the
/system/inst/patch/incominglocation of the driver node and their status in the UI is shown as Available. - Optionally, to remove the uploaded vendor packages, select the vendor packages and click Remove.
- If the vendor packages are required to be installed in a specific sequence, click the arrows in the Reorder column to change the installation sequence.
- Install the uploaded vendor packages. Select all the vendor packages and click Install. Each package is installed on all the nodes. If the packages are installed successfully on all the nodes, a notification is displayed on the top of the page and the package status changes to Installed. If the installation fails on one of the nodes, the vendor package is rolled back on all the nodes and the package status is shown as Available.