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 NetBackup Virtual Appliance account types
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. Each user account must authenticate itself with a user name and password to access the appliance. For a local user, the user name and password are managed on the appliance. For a registered remote user, the user name and password are managed by the 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 account types describes the user accounts that are available on the appliance.
Table: NetBackup Virtual Appliance account types
Account name | Description |
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admin | The admin account is the default Administrator user on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance. This account provides full appliance access and control for the default Administrator user. New appliances are shipped with the following default logon credentials:
When mounting or mapping shares from an appliance, make note of the following:
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maintenance | The maintenance account is used by Veritas Support through the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu (after an administrative log-on). This account is used specifically to perform maintenance activity or to troubleshoot the appliance. Note: This account is also used to make GRUB changes, and for single user mode boot when the STIG option is enabled. |
nbasecadmin | Once created, this account is assigned the default appliance password. When this user first logs in to the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu, they are prompted to change the default password for the account. Note: This user cannot log in to the NetBackup Web UI until the default password is changed. After the default password has been changed, by default, the nbasecadmin user is allowed the following access and privileges:
The access rules for the nbasecadmin user can also be changed to allow more privileges. To access the NetBackup Web UI, this user can open a browser window and enter the URL https:<appliance master server host name>/webui. For more information about RBAC and NetBackup user role management, see the NetBackup Web UI Security Administrator's Guide. |