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Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Last Published: 2017-09-25

Product(s): NetBackup (8.1)

Using the NetBackup Administration Console

The NetBackup Administration Console provides a graphical user interface through which the administrator can manage NetBackup. It runs on both the Windows and the UNIX platforms.

Figure: NetBackup Administration Console

1. Current master server

The name of the currently selected master server.

The information in the NetBackup Administration Console applies to this server only.

2. Shortcut menu

By default, the console displays a toolbar that contains the following options that provide shortcuts for menu commands:

Launch a new instance of the NetBackup Console
Navigational options: Back, Forward, Up one level
Hide or show the tree in the left pane
Export text in the selected table
Preview Printing and Print
Troubleshoot (launches the Troubleshooter)
LiveUpdate (create or run a LiveUpdate policy)
Copy to Clipboard
Lock the console
Unlock users

To display or hide the standard NetBackup toolbar, click View > Toolbar.

3. Login Activity

Click to display the information about the current user's successful and unsuccessful login attempts, and the password expiration date.

4. Backup, Archive, and Restore

Administrators can use the Backup, Archive, and Restore utility to back up, archive, and restore files, directories, and the formatted raw partitions that reside on the computer that is currently selected. Files can be restored at any time. However, files can be backed up or archived only during the time periods that the administrator defines within a schedule for user backups. Users can view the progress and final status of the operations performed.

Note:

An archive is a special type of backup. During an archive, NetBackup first backs up the selected files, then deletes the files from the local disk if the backup is successful. In this manual, references to backups also apply to the backup portion of archive operations (except where otherwise noted).

Documentation for the NetBackup client is available as online Help from the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface.

5. Activity Monitor

Use the Activity Monitor to display NetBackup job information. The Activity Monitor provides the control over the jobs, services, processes, and drives.

See About the Activity Monitor.

6. NetBackup Management

NetBackup Management contains many of the utilities to manage NetBackup:

Reports
Use to compile information to verify, manage, and troubleshoot NetBackup operations.
See About the Reports utility.
Policies
Use to create and specify the backup policies that define the rules for backing up a group of clients.
For example, the backup policy specifies when automatic backups occur for the clients that are specified in the policy. The backup policy also specifies whether users can perform their own backups and when. The administrator can define any number of backup policies, each of which can apply to one or more clients. A NetBackup client must belong to at least one backup policy to be backed up.
See About the Policies utility.
Storage
Use to configure storage units, storage unit groups, storage lifecycle policies (SLPs), and windows for secondary operations in SLPs.
See About the Storage utility.
Catalog
Use to create and configure a catalog backup, which is a special type of backup that NetBackup requires for its own internal databases.
These databases, called the NetBackup catalog, are located on the NetBackup master and media server. The catalog contains information on every client backup. Catalog backups are tracked separately from other backups to ensure recovery in case of a server crash.
The Catalog utility is also used for the following actions:
- To duplicate a backup image
- To promote a backup image from a copy to the primary backup copy
- To manually expire backup images
- To import expired backup images or images from another NetBackup server
- To search for a backup image to verify the contents of the media with what is recorded in the NetBackup catalog
See About the Catalog utility.
Host Properties
Use to customize NetBackup configuration options. In most instances, no changes are necessary. However, Host Properties lets the administrator customize NetBackup to meet specific site preferences and requirements for master servers, media servers, and clients.
See About the NetBackup Host Properties.
Applications
Applications contains all discovered instances on SQL and Oracle clients and any manually added instances. These instances are used to build an Oracle or a SQL Intelligent Policy.
For more information, see the NetBackup for Oracle Administrator's Guide and the NetBackup for SQL Server Administrator's Guide.

7. Media and Device Management

Media and Device Management contains the utilities for managing the media and devices that NetBackup uses to store backups:

Device Monitor
Manages the drives, device paths, and service requests for operators.
Media
Adds and manages removable media.
Devices
Adds, configures, and manages storage devices.
Credentials
Adds, removes, and manages logon credentials for the following:
- NDMP hosts (requires the NetBackup for NDMP license).
- Storage servers (requires a NetBackup Data Protection Optimization Option license).
Credentials appears only if one of these licenses is installed.

8. Security Management

Security Management contains utilities to view login activity, to manage host ID-based certificates, and to manage NetBackup Access Control.

Security Events
Use to view the login details about the current administrator and the user-initiated changes that are made to certificates, tokens, hosts, security configurations, and connections.
The Security Events utility consists of two tabs:
- Access History
  Note:
  NetBackup requires the bprd service to be running to display the audit details on the Access History tab for the users who are logged in using the NetBackup Administration Console.
- Audit Events
For more information about Security Events, see the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide.
http://www.veritas.com/docs/DOC5332
Host Management
Use to carry out NetBackup host operations, such as adding or removing host ID to host name mappings, reset host, or add comment for a host.
The Host Management node consists of two tabs:
- Hosts
- Mappings for Approval
Certificate Management
Use to set the security level for certificate deployment, to view and manage all certificates in the system.
Global Security Settings
Use to configure security settings like enable insecure communication, disaster recovery package passphrase, certificate deployment level and so on.
The Global Security Settings node consists of two tabs:
- Secure Communication
- Disaster Recovery
Access Management
NetBackup administrators can protect a NetBackup configuration by defining who may access NetBackup and what functions a user group can perform. Access Management is enabled when NetBackup Product Authentication and Authorization and NetBackup Access Control (NBAC) is configured.
For more information about NetBackup Access Control, see the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide.
http://www.veritas.com/docs/DOC5332.

9. Other licensed utilities

Additional licensed utilities appear under the main NetBackup nodes.

10. Logging Assistant

The Logging Assistant is a tool that helps administrators configure, gather, and upload debug logs.

See About the Logging Assistant.

11. Details pane

The Details pane contains the configuration wizards and details specific to the utility that is selected.

Note:

When any table is displayed in an active console window, users can enter the search text directly on the keyboard. The text is searched within the first column of the table and the content is highlighted.

The NetBackup Administration Console menus are described in the online Help.

More Information

About security certificates for NetBackup hosts

Configuring log files for the NetBackup Administration Console