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
About creating XML files
You can create views in OpsCenter Analytics by creating and importing the XML files that describe the views.
By using the XML API, you can import IT asset data and their relationships that you maintain through in-house or third-party systems (for example, Peregrine AssetCenter). The XML import capability enables you to import arbitrary groupings of primary servers, clients, policies, and file systems. For example, you can import the groupings that are defined around business units by using the XML import capability.
Note:
You can export and import view structures using the XML file. However, the attributes that are collected by data collectors like Network Name, OS etc. are not exported or imported. Only user-defined attributes like location, isTagged etc. can be exported or imported using an XML file.
You can create user-defined attributes from the OpsCenter GUI (Settings > Configuration > Object Type).
The following examples illustrate the practical use of OpsCenter Analytics XML import functionality.
Example 1: You can use a spreadsheet to define Host A as the marketing host and Host B as the sales host. By importing the XML using the View Builder GUI or the view_exportimport utility, you can import the data in the spreadsheet, create a view using the imported data, and chargeback the services based on business units.
Example 2: You can build a view of a chart of accounts that shows server ownership by company department for chargeback purposes. With large enterprises, the chart of accounts can easily exceed a thousand. Entering this data into OpsCenter Analytics is cumbersome and error prone. By importing the XML using the View Builder GUI or the view_exportimport utility, you can import this data from your local system. While importing the data into OpsCenter Analytics, you can continue with the maintenance of data in the local system.
Importing data using XML is the best example of OpsCenter Analytics's open architecture that enables integration with other systems. See the following sections to know how you can create views in an XML file.