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  3. NetBackup™ Flex Scale Administrator's Guide
  5. NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure management
  7. Managing hardware vendor packages
  9. Upgrading vendor packages
NetBackup™ Flex Scale Administrator's Guide

Upgrading vendor packages

Use the following procedure to upgrade the vendor packages to a later version. If you try to upgrade a vendor package to an earlier version or to its current version that is same or earlier an error is displayed.. You can upgrade a vendor package to a later version than the current version.

To upgrade vendor packages:

  1. 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/webui where 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:14161 where 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.

  2. On the Software management page, click Vendor packages.

    The installed vendor packages are displayed.

  3. Download the vendor packages from the vendor site. Ensure that the version of the downloaded packages is not the same or earlier than the current version of the package.
  4. Select the installed vendor package that needs to be upgraded, click Upgrade and upload the latest package to start the upgrade.

    The selected package is upgraded on all the nodes and is displayed as Installed, whereas the old package is shown Available.

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