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
- 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
- Getting started with OpsCenter
- Administering OpsCenter
- About the 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 configuring data collection for NetBackup
- About the Breakup Jobs option
- Viewing primary server details and data collection status
- About configuring data collection for NetBackup
- Managing OpsCenter views
- About OpsCenter views
- About managing OpsCenter views
- Managing static views
- Managing dynamic 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 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. Attributes of NetBackup data
- Appendix B. Man pages for CLIs
- Appendix C. Creating views using CSV, TSV, and XML files
- Appendix D. Error messages in OpsCenter
How OpsCenter collects data from NetBackup
OpsCenter is used to monitor, manage, and report on NetBackup primary and media servers, clients, and policies. To perform the monitoring, management, and reporting functions, OpsCenter collects data from the NetBackup primary servers. The NetBackup data collection and management logic that OpsCenter uses is built into NetBackup primary servers. This logic is included in the NetBackup Service Layer (NBSL).
Note:
OpsCenter only uses the NBSL on primary servers for data collection. Though NBSL is also included on media servers, OpsCenter does not use it. You must add only primary servers to the OpsCenter console. You must not add any media servers to the OpsCenter console.
NBSL provides a single point of access to key NetBackup data, objects, and change events. The NetBackup UI also uses NBSL. NBSL runs as a service or daemon and has local configuration information, but no local database.
OpsCenter uses NBSL for all NetBackup monitoring, managing, and control functions. If NBSL service stops running on a managed NetBackup server, OpsCenter gets affected.
If NBSL stops, OpsCenter may not capture any changes that were made to the NetBackup configuration. When NBSL restarts, OpsCenter correctly recaptures the latest state.
See Data collection status of a primary server.
The OpsCenter Server software collects data from NBSL in the following ways:
Initial data load
Listening for change notifications
Whenever OpsCenter server software starts, when data collection for a primary server is enabled or when a primary server is added to OpsCenter, the OpsCenter server starts collecting all the available data from NetBackup primary server into the OpsCenter database using NBSL. The initial data load happens serially for each data type. As soon as the initial data load is complete, OpsCenter server software listens to the notifications from NBSL for any change in NetBackup data, and updates the OpsCenter database.
Note:
Consider a scenario when you add a primary server or when OpsCenter Server software starts after a long time, or when the data collection for a primary server is enabled after a long time. In this case, it may take some time for the OpsCenter server to collect all data (such as media, jobs, images, drives etc.) from the NetBackup primary server and insert it into the OpsCenter database.
Consider a scenario where a primary server is already added on the OpsCenter console, and you uninstall and then reinstall NetBackup on the primary server. In this case, you should disable the data collection (
) before you uninstall NetBackup. Once NetBackup installation completes, you must enable the primary server. Enabling the primary server marks the existing primary server as retired and also create a new primary server with the freshly installed NetBackup.See Adding a primary server or an appliance primary server in the OpsCenter console.
Note:
After you install a NetBackup Primary Server, you should enter the OpsCenter Server name in the NetBackup Host Properties.
Veritas Private Branch Exchange (PBX) is used for communication and requires a port to be opened on the OpsCenter server and the NetBackup primary server for input and output. The default PBX port that is used is 1556. You cannot configure the PBX port in OpsCenter.