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

About Microsoft SQL Server credentials

To protect SQL Server, you must add (or register) credentials to the SQL Server instances or availability replicas. The NetBackup web UI supports Windows authentication and Windows Active Directory authentication. It does not support Mixed Mode or SQL Server authentication. Credentials are not supported at the database or the availability group level.

Table: Options to register credentials

Option to register credentials

Environment and configuration

Use these specific credentials (recommended)

  • The SQL Server DBA provides the NetBackup administrator with the SQL Server user credentials.

  • The SQL Server DBA does not want the NetBackup services running as a privileged SQL Server user on the client.

Configuration requirements

The user account that is used to register credentials must have the SQL Server "sysadmin" role and be a member of the Windows Administrators group.

The NetBackup services can use the Local System logon account. If you want to use a different logon account, that account must also have certain local security privileges.

Use credentials that are defined locally on the client

  • The NetBackup services run as a privileged SQL Server user on the client.

  • The SQL Server DBA does not want to provide credentials to register instances or replicas.

  • The NetBackup administrator does not have access to the SQL Server credentials.

Configuration requirements

The user account that is used to register credentials must have the SQL Server "sysadmin" role and be a member of the Windows Administrators group.

You must also configure the logon account for the NetBackup services.

Registering instances when SQL Server hosts are clustered or use multiple NICs

When NetBackup discovers a SQL Server cluster, it adds a single entry on the Instances tab. This instance represents all nodes in the cluster. The host name is the virtual name of the SQL Server cluster. When you add credentials for this instance NetBackup validates the credentials on the active node. The credentials must be valid for all nodes in the cluster.

When NetBackup discovers a SQL Server host that uses multiple NICs, it adds an entry using the NetBackup client name on the Instances tab. If you installed the NetBackup client using the public interface name, you must configure the NetBackup client name as the private interface name. Then add credentials to the instance with its private interface name. For a SQL Server cluster that uses multiple NICs, add credentials to the instance with the private virtual name of the SQL Server cluster.

See the NetBackup for SQL Server Administrator's Guide or ask your NetBackup administrator for assistance.

Registering Microsoft SQL Server failover cluster instances (FCIs)

NetBackup discovers and displays failover cluster instances (FCIs) under the cluster name and the physical node names. For example, instance FCI is enumerated with both its physical nodes hostvm10 and hostvm11 and with its cluster name sql-fci. Databases that exist for FCIs are also enumerated with the node names and the cluster name. Depending on how you want to protect a database, add credentials to either the cluster name (that are valid for all nodes) or to a physical node name.

Validation of credentials

After you add credentials, NetBackup validates the credentials and starts database and availability group discovery. When discovery completes, the results are displayed on the Databases or the Availability group tab.

For a SQL Server cluster or if an availability group instance is part of SQL Server cluster, NetBackup validates the credentials on the active node. The credentials must be valid for all nodes in the cluster. For a SQL Server availability group, replicas are registered and validated individually. Note that the registered date reflects the date and time the credential was added or updated and does not indicate if the credentials are valid.

See the NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server Administrator's Guide.