Veritas NetBackup™ Virtual Appliance Documentation
- Getting to know the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- NetBackup Virtual Appliance product description
- Preparing to deploy the appliance
- Deploying and configuring the appliance
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance media server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance master server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance CloudCatalyst
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server
- Post initial configuration procedures
- Appliance common tasks
- Storage management
- About NetBackup Virtual Appliance storage configuration
- About viewing storage space information using the Show command
- About NetBackup Virtual Appliance storage configuration
- Network connection management
- Managing users
- About authenticating LDAP users
- About authenticating Active Directory users
- About authenticating Kerberos-NIS users
- About user authorization on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Creating NetBackup administrator user accounts
- Using the appliance
- About configuring Host parameters for your appliance on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- About Copilot functionality and Share management
- About NetBackup Virtual Appliance as a VMware backup host
- About running NetBackup commands from the appliance
- About mounting a remote NFS
- About Auto Image Replication from a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Monitoring the appliance
- About SNMP
- About Call Home
- Appliance security
- About Symantec Data Center Security on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Setting the appliance login banner
- Upgrading the appliance
- About upgrading to NetBackup Virtual Appliance software version 3.1.2
- Requirements and best practices for upgrading NetBackup appliances
- Methods for downloading appliance software release updates
- Appliance restore
- Decommissioning and Reconfiguring
- Troubleshooting
- About disaster recovery
- About NetBackup support utilities
- Appliance logging
- Commands overview
- Appendix A. Appliance commands
- Appendix B. Manage commands
- Appendix C. Monitor commands
- Appendix D. Network commands
- Appendix E. Reports commands
- Appendix F. Settings commands
- Appendix G. Support commands
Exporting an LDAP server configuration from the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
You can use the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu to export the current LDAP configuration to an .xml
file. This file can be used to save the LDAP server configuration details and export them to other appliances. The following procedure describes the steps to export the configuration details of your LDAP server into an .xml
file.
Note:
The Export option is enabled only after the LDAP server is configured.
See Adding or modifying an LDAP server configuration on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance.
To export the configuration file
- Log on to the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu as an administrator and navigate to the Settings > Security > Authentication > LDAP view.
- Run the Export command to export the existing LDAP configuration as an
.xml
file.The file is saved to the appliance share directory.
- Return to the main menu of the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu and enter the following command to open the NFS and the CIFS shares:
Main_Menu > Manage > Software > Share Open
- Map or mount the appliance share directory as follows:
Windows systems
Map the following appliance CIFS share:
\\<appliance-name>\incoming_patches
UNIX systems
Mount the following appliance NFS share:
<appliance-name>:/inst/patch/incoming
Note that on Windows systems, you are prompted to provide the user name, admin, and its corresponding password.
- Copy the configuration file from this mapped directory to your local computer.
- Unmap or unmount the directory after you have successfully copied the file.
- Enter the following command to close the NFS and the CIFS shares:
Main_Menu > Manage > Software > Share Close