NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (8.3.0.1, 8.3)
  1. Introducing the NetBackup web user interface
    1.  
      About the NetBackup web UI
    2.  
      Terminology
    3.  
      First-time sign in to a NetBackup master server from the NetBackup web UI
    4.  
      Sign in to the NetBackup web UI
    5.  
      Sign out of the NetBackup web UI
    6.  
      Authorized users
  2. Section I. Managing security
    1. Monitoring and notifications
      1.  
        The NetBackup dashboard
      2. Monitoring jobs
        1.  
          Jobs: canceling, suspending, restarting, resuming, deleting
        2.  
          Filter jobs in the job list
      3. About notifications
        1.  
          Viewing notifications
        2.  
          How to disable or modify NetBackup event notifications in the web UI
        3.  
          About configuring automatic notification cleanup tasks
      4. Send email notifications for job failures
        1.  
          Status codes that generate alerts
    2. Managing role-based access control
      1.  
        About role-based access control (RBAC) in NetBackup
      2. Configuring RBAC
        1.  
          Upgrading API key users to NetBackup 8.3
        2.  
          Add AD or LDAP domains
        3.  
          Add an RBAC role
        4.  
          Edit or remove a role
        5.  
          View users in RBAC
        6.  
          Add a user to a role
        7.  
          Remove a user from a role
      3. Role permissions
        1. Global > NetBackup management
          1.  
            Access hosts
          2.  
            Email notifications
          3.  
            Data classification
          4.  
            Event logs
          5.  
            NetBackup hosts
          6.  
            Image sharing
          7.  
            NetBackup backup images
          8.  
            Jobs
          9.  
            Licensing
          10.  
            Media server
          11.  
            Remote master server certificate authority
          12.  
            Resiliency
          13.  
            Resource limits
          14.  
            Retention levels
          15.  
            Servers > Trusted master servers
          16.  
            Cloud providers
          17.  
            CloudPoint servers
          18.  
            WebSocket servers
        2.  
          Global > Protection
        3. Global > Security
          1.  
            Access control
          2.  
            Security events
          3.  
            Certificate management
          4.  
            Disaster recovery passphrase
          5.  
            Identity provider configuration
          6.  
            Key Management Services (KMS)
          7.  
            Global security settings
          8.  
            Trust versions
          9.  
            API keys
          10.  
            User certificates
          11.  
            User sessions and authentication
        4. Global > Storage
          1.  
            Cloud storage
          2.  
            Disk pools
          3.  
            Storage Key Management Services
          4.  
            Storage servers
          5.  
            Storage units
          6.  
            Replication-capable target storage servers
        5.  
          Assets
        6.  
          Protection plans
        7.  
          Credentials
      4. Manage access
        1.  
          Manage the permissions for an area of the web UI
        2.  
          View access definitions
      5. Configure an external certificate for the NetBackup web server
        1.  
          Update or renew the external certificate for the web server
        2.  
          Remove the external certificate configured for the web server
    3. Security events and audit logs
      1.  
        View security events and audit logs
      2. About NetBackup auditing
        1.  
          User identity in the audit report
        2.  
          Audit retention period and catalog backups of audit records
        3.  
          Viewing the detailed NetBackup audit report
      3.  
        Send audit events to system logs
    4. Managing security certificates
      1.  
        About security management and certificates in NetBackup
      2.  
        NetBackup host IDs and host ID-based certificates
      3. Managing NetBackup security certificates
        1.  
          Reissue a NetBackup certificate
        2.  
          Managing NetBackup certificate authorization tokens
      4. Using external security certificates with NetBackup
        1.  
          View external certificate information for the NetBackup hosts in the domain
    5. Managing user sessions
      1.  
        Sign out a NetBackup user session
      2.  
        Unlock a NetBackup user
      3.  
        Configure when idle sessions should time out
      4.  
        Configure the maximum of concurrent user sessions
      5.  
        Configure the maximum of failed sign-in attempts
      6.  
        Display a banner to users when they sign in
    6. Managing master server security settings
      1.  
        Certificate authority for secure communication
      2.  
        Disable communication with NetBackup 8.0 and earlier hosts
      3.  
        Disable automatic mapping of NetBackup host names
      4.  
        About NetBackup certificate deployment security levels
      5.  
        Select a security level for NetBackup certificate deployment
      6.  
        Set a passphrase for disaster recovery
      7. About trusted master servers
        1.  
          Add a trusted master server
        2.  
          Remove a trusted master server
    7. Creating and using API keys
      1.  
        About API keys
      2.  
        Manage API keys
      3.  
        Use an API key with NetBackup REST APIs
      4.  
        View API keys
    8. Configuring authentication options
      1.  
        Sign-in options for the NetBackup web UI
      2. Configure user authentication with smart cards or digital certificates
        1.  
          Edit the configuration for smart card authentication
        2.  
          Add or delete a CA certificate that is used for smart card authentication
        3.  
          Disable or temporarily disable smart card authentication
      3.  
        About Single Sign-On (SSO) configuration
      4. Configure NetBackup for Single Sign-On (SSO)
        1.  
          Configure the Java KeyStore
        2.  
          Add and enable the IDP configuration
        3.  
          Enroll the NetBackup master server with the IDP
        4.  
          Manage an IDP configuration
      5. Troubleshooting SSO
        1.  
          Redirection issues
        2.  
          Unable to sign in due to authorization-related issues
    9. Managing hosts
      1.  
        View NetBackup host information
      2.  
        Approve or add mappings for a host that has multiple host names
      3.  
        Remove mappings for a host that has multiple host names
      4.  
        Reset a host's attributes
    10. Troubleshooting the web UI
      1.  
        Tips for accessing the NetBackup web UI
      2.  
        If a user doesn't have the correct permissions or access in the NetBackup web UI
      3. Unable to add AD or LDAP domains with the vssat command
        1.  
          Connection cannot be established with the AD or the LDAP server
        2.  
          User credentials are not valid
        3.  
          An incorrect user base DN or group base DN was provided
        4.  
          Multiple users or groups exist with the same name under user base DN or group base DN
        5.  
          User or group does not exist
      4.  
        Unable to validate the user or group
  3. Section II. Managing storage and backups
    1. Configuring storage
      1.  
        About storage configuration
      2.  
        Create a Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) storage server
      3.  
        Create a Cloud (Cloud Catalyst), OpenStorage, or AdvancedDisk storage server
      4.  
        Create a disk pool
      5.  
        Create a storage unit
      6.  
        Create a universal share
      7.  
        Using image sharing from the NetBackup Web UI
      8.  
        Troubleshooting storage configuration
      9.  
        Troubleshooting universal share configuration issues
    2. Managing protection plans
      1.  
        Create a protection plan
      2.  
        Edit or delete a protection plan
      3.  
        Subscribe an asset or an asset group to a protection plan
      4.  
        Unsubscribe an asset from a protection plan
      5.  
        View protection plan overrides
      6.  
        About Backup Now
      7.  
        About a NetBackup classic policy
      8.  
        About policy management in the NetBackup web UI
    3. Managing protection plans for Microsoft SQL Server
      1.  
        About protecting SQL Server availability groups
      2. Create a protection plan to protect SQL Server assets
        1.  
          Schedules and retention
        2.  
          Performance tuning and configuration options
        3.  
          Using copy-only snapshot backups to affect how differentials are based
        4.  
          Snapshot methods
      3.  
        Protect a SQL Server availability group that crosses NetBackup domains
    4. Usage reporting and capacity licensing
      1.  
        Track backup data size on your master servers
      2.  
        Configure the servers list for usage reporting
      3.  
        Scheduling reports for capacity licensing
      4.  
        Other configuration for incremental reporting
      5.  
        Troubleshooting failures for nbdeployutil and incremental reporting
  4. Section III. Veritas Resiliency Platform
    1. Managing Resiliency Platforms
      1.  
        About Resiliency Platform in NetBackup
      2.  
        Understanding the terms
      3. Configuring a Resiliency Platform
        1.  
          Add a Resiliency Platform
        2.  
          Configuring a third-party CA certificate
        3.  
          Editing or deleting a Resiliency Platform
        4.  
          Viewing the automated or not-automated VMs
      4.  
        Troubleshooting NetBackup and Resiliency Platform issues
  5. Section IV. Managing credentials
    1. Managing external KMS and workload credentials
      1.  
        About credential management in NetBackup
      2.  
        Add a credential in NetBackup
      3.  
        Edit a credential
      4.  
        Delete a credential
      5. Select or add credentials to SQL Server instances or replicas
        1.  
          About Microsoft SQL Server credentials
        2.  
          Configuring the NetBackup services for SQL Server backups and restores
        3.  
          Configuring local security privileges for SQL Server

Manage an IDP configuration

You can manage the identity provider (IDP) configurations on the NetBackup master server by using the enable (-e true), update (-uc), disable (-e false). and delete (-dc) options of the nbidpcmd command.

Enable an IDP configuration

By default, an IDP configuration is not enabled in the product environment. If you did not enable the IDP when you added it, you can use the -uc -e true options to update and enable the IDP configuration.

To enable an IDP configuration

  1. Log on to the master server as root or administrator.
  2. Run the following command:

    nbidpcmd -uc -n IDP configuration name -e true

    Where IDP configuration name is a unique name provided to the IDP configuration.

Note:

Even though you can configure multiple IDPs on a NetBackup master server, only one IDP can be enabled at a time.

Update an IDP configuration

You can update the XML metadata file associated with an IDP configuration.

To update the IDP XML metadata file in an IDP configuration

  1. Log on to the master server as root or administrator.
  2. Run the following command:

    nbidpcmd -uc -n IDP configuration name -mxp IDP XML metadata file

    Replace the variables as described below:

    • IDP configuration name is a unique name provided to the IDP configuration.

    • IDP XML metadata file is the path to the XML metadata file, which contains the configuration details of the IDP in Base64URL-encoded format.

If you want to update the IDP user or IDP user group values in an IDP configuration, you must first delete the configuration. The Single Sign-On (SSO) option is not available for users until you re-add the configuration with the updated IDP user or IDP user group values.

To update IDP user or IDP user group in an IDP configuration

  1. Log on to the master server as root or administrator.
  2. Delete the IDP configuration.

    nbidpcmd -dc -n IDP configuration name

    Where IDP configuration name is a unique name provided to the IDP configuration.

  3. To add and enable the configuration again, run the following command:

    nbidpcmd -ac -n IDP configuration name -mxp IDP XML metadata file [-t SAML2] [-e true | false] [-u IDP user] [-g IDP user group field] [-M Master Server

    Replace the variables as described below:

    • IDP configuration name is a unique name provided to the IDP configuration.

    • IDP XML metadata file is the path to the XML metadata file, which contains the configuration details of the IDP in Base64URL-encoded format.

    • -e true | false enables or disables the IDP configuration. An IDP must be available and enabled otherwise users cannot sign in with the Single Sign-On (SSO) option. Even though you can add multiple IDP configurations on a NetBackup master server, only one IDP configuration can be enabled at a time.

    • IDP user field and IDP user group field are the SAML attribute names, which are mapped to the userPrincipalName and the memberOf attributes in the AD or LDAP.

      Note:

      Ensure that the SAML attribute names are defined in the format of username@domainname and (CN=group name, DC=domainname) respectively.

    • Master Server is the host name or IP address of the master server to which you want to add or modify the IDP configuration. The NetBackup master server where you run the command is selected by default.

Disable an IDP configuration

If an IDP configuration is disabled in the product environment, the Single Sign-On (SSO) option of that IDP is not available for users when they sign in.

To disable an IDP configuration

  1. Log on to the master server as root or administrator.
  2. Run the following command:

    nbidpcmd -uc -n IDP configuration name -e false

    Where IDP configuration name is a unique name provided to the IDP configuration.

Delete an IDP configuration

If an IDP configuration is deleted, the Single Sign-On (SSO) option of that IDP is not available for users when they sign in.

To delete an IDP configuration

  1. Log on to the master server as root or administrator.
  2. Run the following command:

    nbidpcmd -dc -n IDP configuration name

    Where IDP configuration name is a unique name provided to the IDP configuration.