Users Guide

5. Click Save. The GUI becomes unavailable as the web services are restarted, the virtual appliance shell
is still accessible and all active users are logged out.
Update Repository Path
By default, it comes with a repository path. To update the repository path, perform the following tasks:
1. Click Settings, click Virtual Appliance Management under Settings.
Virtual Appliance Management page is displayed
2. Click Edit beside Update Repository Path option.
3. Update Repository Path window is displayed. You can update the path using Update Repository
Path field.
4. Click Save to save the updated path.
5. It directs you to Virtual Appliance Management page. On the page, under Update Repository Path,
you get the updated information regarding Current Virtual Appliance Version, Available Virtual
Appliance Version, Repository Path
6. To perform the update, click Update Virtual Appliance.
7. After you click Update Virtual Appliance, a dialogue box is displayed with few statement and
warning message.
NOTE: The message displayed in the dialogue box is “ Updating the appliance restarts the
system. The action will log off all current users and cancel all jobs in progress.” It even
displayed the message “ The update process takes approximately 25 minutes depending on
your data connection: 15 minutes to download the update and 10 minutes to apply.” Apart
from these, it gives you information about number of logged-in users, and in progress jobs. At
the end, it asks for your confirmation “ Are you sure you want to perform an appliance update?”
8. After reading the message, if you decide that it’s good to proceed with update virtual appliance, click
Yes on the dialogue box.
It updates your appliance.
NOTE: This process restarts your system. Once update and restore is complete, you get logged in
again. Once the update process is complete, it redirects you to login page. In the meantime it
monitor the progress of update and keep giving message accordingly. At the end, you get a tab as
Click to log in. After you click the tab, you will be directed to login page to log in again to appliance.
Virtual identity pools
In ASM, virtual identity pools provide a conceptual way to categorize the virtual identities that help in
network communication.
A virtual identity pool can include any combination of following virtual identities:
• MAC
• IQN
• WWPN
• WWNN
By default, virtual identities that are not assigned to any virtual identity pool are automatically assigned to
the Global pool.
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