NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
- Introducing NetBackup
- About NetBackup
- NetBackup documentation
- NetBackup web UI features
- NetBackup administration interfaces
- Terminology
- First-time sign in to the NetBackup web UI
- Sign in to the NetBackup web UI
- Sign out of the NetBackup web UI
- Documentation for Catalog Recovery Wizard, disk array hosts, disk pools, and Host Properties in the NetBackup web UI
- Section I. Monitoring and notifications
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- The NetBackup dashboard
- Activity monitor
- Job monitoring
- Workloads that require a custom RBAC role for specific job permissions
- View a job
- View the jobs in the List view
- View the jobs in the Hierarchy view
- Jobs: cancel, suspend, restart, resume, delete
- Search for or filter jobs in the jobs list
- Create a jobs filter
- Edit, copy, or delete a jobs filter
- Import or export job filters
- Troubleshooting the viewing of jobs
- Notifications
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- Section II. Configuring hosts
- Managing host properties
- Managing credentials for workloads and systems that NetBackup accesses
- Overview of credential management in NetBackup
- Add a credential in NetBackup
- Add a credential for an external KMS
- Add a credential for NetBackup Callhome Proxy
- Edit or delete a named credential
- Add a credential for Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP)
- Edit or delete Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) credentials in NetBackup
- Managing deployment
- Section III. Configuring storage
- Section IV. Configuring backups
- Section V. Managing security
- Security events and audit logs
- Managing security certificates
- Managing host mappings
- Managing user sessions
- Managing the security settings for the primary server
- Certificate authority for secure communication
- Disable communication with NetBackup 8.0 and earlier hosts
- Disable automatic mapping of NetBackup host names
- Configure the global data-in-transit encryption setting
- About NetBackup certificate deployment security levels
- Select a security level for NetBackup certificate deployment
- About TLS session resumption
- Set a passphrase for disaster recovery
- About trusted primary servers
- Using access keys, API keys, and access codes
- Configuring authentication options
- Managing role-based access control
- RBAC features
- Authorized users
- Configuring RBAC
- Notes for using NetBackup RBAC
- Add AD or LDAP domains
- View users in RBAC
- Add a user to a role (non-SAML)
- Add a smart card user to a role (non-SAML, without AD/LDAP)
- Add a user to a role (SAML)
- Remove a user from a role
- Disable web UI access for operating system (OS) administrators
- Disable command-line (CLI) access for operating system (OS) administrators
- Default RBAC roles
- Add a custom RBAC role
- Role permissions
- Manage access permission
- View access definitions
- Section VI. Detection and reporting
- Detecting malware
- About malware detection
- Configure a new scan host pool
- Add an existing scan host
- Manage credentials
- Remove the scan host
- Deactivate the scan host
- Scan a policy client backup images for malware
- Perform malware scanning
- Scan a VMware asset for malware
- View the malware scan status
- Actions for malware scanned images
- Recover from malware-affected images (clients protected by policies)
- Recover a VMware asset affected by malware
- Troubleshooting
- Detecting anomalies
- Usage reporting and capacity licensing
- Detecting malware
- Section VII. NetBackup workloads and NetBackup Flex Scale
- Section VIII. Disaster recovery and troubleshooting
About NetBackup
NetBackup provides a complete, flexible data protection solution for a variety of platforms. The platforms include Windows, UNIX, and Linux systems.
NetBackup administrators can set up periodic or calendar-based schedules to perform automatic, unattended backups for clients across a network. An administrator can carefully schedule backups to achieve systematic and complete backups over a period of time, and optimize network traffic during off-peak hours. The backups can be full or incremental: Full backups back up all indicated client files, while incremental backups back up only the files that have changed since the last backup.
The NetBackup administrator can allow users to back up, restore, or archive the files from their computer. (An archive operation backs up a file, then deletes it from the local disk if the backup is successful.)
NetBackup includes both the server and the client software as follows:
Server software resides on the computer that manages the storage devices.
Client software resides on computers that contain data to back up. (Servers also contain client software and can be backed up.)
Figure: NetBackup storage domain example shows an example of a NetBackup storage domain.
NetBackup accommodates multiple servers that work together under the administrative control of one NetBackup primary server in the following ways:
The primary server manages backups, archives, and restores. The primary server is responsible for media and device selection for NetBackup. Typically, the primary server contains the NetBackup catalog. The catalog contains the internal databases that contain information about NetBackup backups and configuration.
Media servers provide additional storage by allowing NetBackup to use the storage devices that are attached to them. Media servers can also increase performance by distributing the network load. Media servers can also be referred to by using the following terms:
Device hosts (when tape devices are present)
Storage servers (when I/O is directly to disk)
Data movers (when data is sent to independent, external disk devices like OpenStorage appliances)
During a backup or archive, the client sends backup data across the network to a NetBackup server. The NetBackup server manages the type of storage that is specified in the backup policy.
During a restore, users can browse, then select the files and directories to recover. NetBackup finds the selected files and directories and restores them to the disk on the client.