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
About user authorization on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
The NetBackup Virtual Appliance is administered and managed through user accounts. You can create local user accounts, or register users and user groups that belong to a remote directory service. In order for a new user account to log on and access the appliance, you must first authorize it with a role. By default, a new user account does not have an assigned role, and therefore it cannot log on until you grant it a role.
Table: NetBackup Virtual Appliance user roles
Role | Description |
---|---|
Administrator |
A user account that is assigned the Administrator role is provided administrative privileges to manage the NetBackup Virtual Appliance. An Administrator user is allowed to log on, view, and perform all functions on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu. These user accounts have permissions to log on to the appliance and run NetBackup commands with superuser privileges. |
NetBackupCLI | A user account that is assigned the NetBackupCLI role is solely restricted to run a limited set of NetBackup CLI commands and does not have access outside the scope of NetBackup software directories. Once these users log on to the appliance, they are taken to a restricted shell menu from where they can manage NetBackup. The NetBackupCLI users do not have access to the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu. |
The following list describes some of the characteristics of NetBackup Virtual Appliance authorization:
Ability to prevent unintended access to the appliance by password protecting logins.
Access to shared data is provided only to authorized appliance users and NetBackup processes.
Data that is stored within an appliance cannot inherently protect itself from unintended modification or deletion by a malicious user that knows the admin credentials to the appliance.
Network access to the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu is only allowed through SSH.
Access to
FTP
,Telnet
, andrlogin
are disabled on all appliances.