NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
- Introducing the NetBackup web user interface
- Section I. Managing security
- Monitoring and notifications
- Managing role-based access control
- About role-based access control (RBAC) in NetBackup
- Configuring RBAC
- Role permissions
- Global > NetBackup management
- Access hosts
- Email notifications
- Data classification
- Event logs
- NetBackup hosts
- Image sharing
- NetBackup backup images
- Jobs
- Licensing
- Media server
- Remote master server certificate authority
- Resiliency
- Resource limits
- Retention levels
- Servers > Trusted master servers
- Cloud providers
- CloudPoint servers
- WebSocket servers
- Global > Protection
- Global > Security
- Global > Storage
- Assets
- Protection plans
- Credentials
- Global > NetBackup management
- Manage access
- Configure an external certificate for the NetBackup web server
- Security events and audit logs
- Managing security certificates
- Managing user sessions
- Managing master server security settings
- Certificate authority for secure communication
- Disable communication with NetBackup 8.0 and earlier hosts
- Disable automatic mapping of NetBackup host names
- About NetBackup certificate deployment security levels
- Select a security level for NetBackup certificate deployment
- Set a passphrase for disaster recovery
- About trusted master servers
- Creating and using API keys
- Configuring authentication options
- Managing hosts
- Troubleshooting the web UI
- Section II. Managing storage and backups
- Configuring storage
- About storage configuration
- Create a Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) storage server
- Create a Cloud (Cloud Catalyst), OpenStorage, or AdvancedDisk storage server
- Create a disk pool
- Create a storage unit
- Create a universal share
- Using image sharing from the NetBackup Web UI
- Troubleshooting storage configuration
- Troubleshooting universal share configuration issues
- Managing protection plans
- Managing protection plans for Microsoft SQL Server
- Usage reporting and capacity licensing
- Configuring storage
- Section III. Veritas Resiliency Platform
- Section IV. Managing credentials
Scheduling reports for capacity licensing
By default, NetBackup triggers nbdeployutil to run on a specified schedule to incrementally gather data and to generate licensing reports. For the first run, the duration of the report uses the frequency that is specified in the configuration file.
For capacity licensing, the report duration is always for the last 90 days based on the availability of the gathered data. Any data older than 90 days is not considered in the report. Each time nbdeployutil runs, it gathers information for the time between the latest run of nbdeployutil and the previous successful run.
The current capacity licensing report resides in the following directory:
On Windows: install_path\NetBackup\var\global\incremental
On UNIX: /usr/openv/var/global/incremental
It contains the following files:
The generated report for the latest nbdeployutil result.
Folders containing incrementally gathered data.
The archive folder that contains the older generated reports.
nbdeployutil log files.
The older reports are placed in the archive folder. Veritas recommends that you retain at least 90 days of reporting data. Data can be kept longer than 90 days, depending on the requirements of your environment. Older reports can help to show how the capacity usage has changed over time. Delete the reports or the folder when they are no longer required.
The nbdeployutilconfig.txt file is not required when you use the default parameters. nbdeployutil uses the following default values for capacity licensing:
FREQUENCY_IN_DAYS=7
MASTER_SERVERS=local_server
PARENTDIR=folder_name
For Windows: install_path\NetBackup\var\global\incremental
For UNIX: /usr/openv/var/global/incremental
PURGE_INTERVAL=120 (number of days)
MACHINE_TYPE_REQUERY_INTERVAL = 90 (number of days)
If the file nbdeployutilconfig.txt is not present, create a file using the following format:
[NBDEPLOYUTIL_INCREMENTAL] MASTER_SERVERS=<server_names> FREQUENCY_IN_DAYS=7 PARENTDIR=<folder_name_with_path> PURGE_INTERVAL=120 MACHINE_TYPE_REQUERY_INTERVAL=90
To use custom values for the licensing report
- Copy the nbdeployutilconfig.txt file to the following location:
For Windows: install_path\NetBackup\var\global
For UNIX: /usr/openv/var/global
- Open the nbdeployutilconfig.txt file.
- Edit the
FREQUENCY_IN_DAYSvalue to reflect how often you want the report to be created.Default (recommended)
7
Minimum
1
Value of 0
Disables the incremental reporting and no licensing information is captured.
Parameter deleted
nbdeployutil uses the default value.
- Edit the
MASTER_SERVERSvalue to include a comma-separated list of the master servers you want to include in the report.Note:
Veritas Smart Meter requires that master servers be at NetBackup 8.1.2 or later.
No value
nbdeployutil uses the default value.
Parameter deleted
nbdeployutil uses the default value.
For example:
MASTER_SERVERS=newserver, oldserver
MASTER_SERVERS=newserver, oldserver.domain.com
MASTER_SERVERS=myserver1.somedomain.com, newserver.domain.com
- Edit the
PARENTDIRvalue to include the full path for location where the data is gathered and reported.No value
nbdeployutil uses the default value.
Parameter deleted
nbdeployutil uses the default value.
- Edit the
PURGE_INTERVALto indicate the interval (in days) for how often you want to delete the report data. Data that is older than 120 days is automatically purged.Default
120
Minimum
90
No value
nbdeployutil uses the default value.
Parameter deleted
nbdeployutil uses the default value.
- Edit the
MACHINE_TYPE_REQUERY_INTERVALto indicate how often to scan physical clients for updates to the machine type.Default
90
Minimum
1
No value
nbdeployutil uses the default value.
Parameter deleted
nbdeployutil uses the default value.