Veritas NetBackup™ OpsCenter Administrator's Guide
- Overview of NetBackup OpsCenter
- About OpsCenter
- About OpsCenter components
- About starting the OpsCenter console
- About OpsCenter console components
- About the View pane
- Sizing the Content pane
- About using tables
- Installing OpsCenter
- About planning an OpsCenter installation
- About the OpsCenter licensing model
- Managed NetBackup master server considerations
- About designing your OpsCenter Server
- About planning an OpsCenter Agent deployment
- Installing OpsCenter on Windows and UNIX
- About OpsCenter upgrade on Windows and UNIX
- About post-installation tasks
- About uninstalling OpsCenter on Windows and UNIX
- About clustering OpsCenter
- About planning an OpsCenter installation
- OpsCenter Getting Started feature
- Administering OpsCenter
- About OpsCenter services and processes used by OpsCenter
- OpsCenter server scripts on Windows and UNIX
- About OpsCenter database administration
- About backup and restore of OpsCenter and OpsCenter Analytics
- About communication ports and firewall considerations in OpsCenter
- About OpsCenter log files
- Understanding OpsCenter settings
- Setting user preferences
- About managing licenses
- Configuring the data purge period on the OpsCenter Server
- Configuring SMTP server settings for OpsCenter
- Adding host aliases in OpsCenter
- Merging objects (hosts) in OpsCenter
- Modifying tape library information in OpsCenter
- Copying a user profile in OpsCenter
- Setting report export location in OpsCenter
- About managing Object Types in OpsCenter
- About managing OpsCenter users
- About adding AD / LDAP user groups in OpsCenter
- About managing recipients in OpsCenter
- About managing cost analysis and chargeback for OpsCenter Analytics
- Understanding data collection
- About data collection in OpsCenter
- About managing OpsCenter Agents
- About managing OpsCenter Data Collectors
- About configuring data collection for NetBackup
- About the Breakup Jobs option
- Viewing master server details and data collection status
- Collecting data from PureDisk
- Managing OpsCenter views
- About OpsCenter views
- About managing OpsCenter views
- View filters in OpsCenter
- Monitoring NetBackup using OpsCenter
- Controlling the scope of Monitor views
- About monitoring NetBackup using the Overview tab
- About monitoring NetBackup jobs
- Monitor > Services view
- About monitoring Audit Trails
- Managing NetBackup using OpsCenter
- About managing alert policies
- About creating (or changing) an alert policy
- About managing NetBackup storage
- About managing NetBackup devices
- About Operational Restore and Guided Recovery operations
- About Operational Restores from OpsCenter
- About OpsCenter Guided Recovery
- Troubleshooting Guided Recovery
- About managing NetBackup Hosts
- About managing NetBackup Deployment Analysis
- Data compilation for the Capacity License report
- Generating a Capacity Licensing report
- Supporting Replication Director in OpsCenter
- Understanding and configuring OpsCenter alerts
- About using SNMP
- About using SNMP
- Reporting in OpsCenter
- About OpsCenter reports
- Report Templates in OpsCenter
- About managing reports in OpsCenter
- Creating a custom report in OpsCenter
- About managing My Reports
- About managing My Dashboard
- About managing reports folders in OpsCenter
- About managing report schedules in OpsCenter
- About managing time schedules in OpsCenter
- Appendix A. Additional information on PureDisk data collection
- Appendix B. Attributes of NetBackup data
- Appendix C. Man pages for CLIs
- Appendix D. Creating views using CSV, TSV, and XML files
- Appendix E. Error messages in OpsCenter
About the OpsCenter Server
The OpsCenter Server, the core of the architecture, is a Web application that normalizes backup data that it collects from various applications. This normalized data is used for reporting on backup-related information.
OpsCenter Server is supported on Windows and UNIX platforms.
Note:
You must install OpsCenter Server, Agent, and View Builder of the same versions. For example, OpsCenter Server 7.7 is compatible only with Agent 7.7 and View Builder 7.7.
The OpsCenter Server comprises the following components:
OpsCenter database | A Sybase SQL Anywhere database management system containing data related to back up service usage and expenditure, cost metrics and chargeback formulas, and alerts. |
OpsCenter AT | A set of common authentication runtime libraries and processes that enable users to log on once to access multiple products. OpsCenter AT validates identities based on external name spaces. Examples of name spaces are Active Directory or other LDAP servers, UNIX identities based on password files, NIS/NIS+ repositories, or any identities that can be authenticated through PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module). It also provides a private user repository for service identities. See About OpsCenter AT. |
Alert Manager | A component that provides policy-based alert management, including notification, custom actions, and SNMP management capabilities.
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Web Server and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) | A common web server (that uses Java Server Pages) and JRE to serve the OpsCenter console. |
Veritas Licensing Manager | A common Veritas Licensing Module and API used to add, change, and remove Veritas product license keys. |
Veritas Private Branch Exchange | A common component that uses socket passing to reduce the number of ports that are required to be open across a firewall. Veritas Private Branch Exchange uses a paradigm similar to the paradigm of a telephone switchboard. Calls placed to a switchboard are redirected to a known extension. In the PBX exchange, client connections that are sent to the exchange's port are redirected to an extension that is associated with the OpsCenter Server. |
Figure: OpsCenter Server architecture shows the architecture of the OpsCenter Server.