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
NetBackup administration interfaces
NetBackup can be administered with several interfaces. The best choice depends on personal preference and the systems that are available to the administrator.
Table: NetBackup administration interfaces
Name of interface | Description |
|---|---|
NetBackup web user interface | With the NetBackup web user interface (UI), you can view NetBackup activities and manage NetBackup configuration, from a primary server. To start the NetBackup web UI:
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NetBackup Administration Console | The contains all the available configuration and features for NetBackup, with the exception of role-based access control. From the primary server you can configure and manage the storage devices on all of your media servers. NetBackup includes an administration console for all the supported versions of NetBackup. Select the version of the console that is compatible with the NetBackup server that you want to administer. To start the :
Note: To log in to any NetBackup Administration Console, your login credentials must be authenticated from the connecting primary or media server. |
Character-based, menu interface | Run the tpconfig command to start a character-based, menu interface for device management. Use the tpconfig interface from any terminal (or terminal emulation window) that has a termcap or a terminfo definition. |
Command line | NetBackup commands are available on both Windows and UNIX platforms. Enter NetBackup commands at the system prompt or use the commands in scripts. All NetBackup administrator programs and commands require root or administrator user privileges by default. |