Veritas NetBackup™ OpsCenter Administrator's Guide
- Overview of NetBackup OpsCenter
- About OpsCenter
- About OpsCenter components
- About using the OpsCenter console
- About starting the OpsCenter console
- About OpsCenter console components
- About using the links on the title bar
- About using tabs and subtabs
- About refreshing the OpsCenter console
- Changing the Task pane
- About the View pane
- Using the quick links in the Task pane
- Viewing alerts from the Alert Summary pane
- Sizing the Content pane
- About the OpsCenter status bar
- Status icons and colors in the console
- About using tables
- Common tasks in OpsCenter
- About using Web browser bookmarks
- About OpsCenter documentation
- Installing OpsCenter
- About planning an OpsCenter installation
- Installing OpsCenter on Windows and UNIX
- About OpsCenter upgrade on Windows and UNIX
- About files and folders that are protected during OpsCenter upgrade
- About OpsCenter upgrade failure scenarios
- 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
- Communication ports used by key OpsCenter components
- Web browser to launch OpsCenter user interface
- About OpsCenter user interface and OpsCenter server software communication
- About OpsCenter server to NetBackup primary server (NBSL) communication
- About SNMP traps
- About communication between OpsCenter and Sybase database
- About email communication in OpsCenter
- Gathering troubleshooting data with the support script
- About OpsCenter log files
- Understanding OpsCenter settings
- OpsCenter settings
- Setting user preferences
- About managing licenses
- Configuring the data purge period on the OpsCenter Server
- About storing the SMTP Server configurations in OpsCenter
- 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 managing user password
- About adding AD / LDAP user groups in OpsCenter
- Settings > Users > Users options
- User access rights and functions in OpsCenter user interface
- Viewing OpsCenter user account information
- Adding new users to OpsCenter
- Editing OpsCenter user information
- Resetting an OpsCenter user password
- Resetting password of the OpsCenter Security Admin
- Deleting OpsCenter users
- Viewing OpsCenter user groups
- Settings > Users > User Groups options
- Adding OpsCenter user groups
- Editing OpsCenter user groups
- Deleting OpsCenter user groups
- About managing recipients in OpsCenter
- Viewing email recipients in OpsCenter
- Settings > Recipients > Email options
- Viewing SNMP trap recipients in OpsCenter
- Settings > Recipients > SNMP trap recipient options
- Creating OpsCenter email recipients
- Settings > Recipients > Email > Add Email Recipient options
- Creating OpsCenter SNMP trap recipients
- Settings > Recipients > SNMP > Add SNMP trap recipient options
- Modifying OpsCenter Email or SNMP recipient information
- Deleting OpsCenter Email or SNMP trap recipient
- About managing cost analysis and chargeback for OpsCenter Analytics
- Setting the default currency for OpsCenter cost reports
- Settings > Chargeback > Currency Settings options
- Editing the OpsCenter global currency list
- Settings > Chargeback > Currency Settings > Edit Currency List options
- Settings > Chargeback > Cost Variable options
- Creating cost variables in OpsCenter
- Modifying cost variables in OpsCenter
- Deleting cost variables in OpsCenter
- Settings > Chargeback > Cost Formulae options
- Creating cost formulae in OpsCenter
- Modifying cost formulae in OpsCenter
- Deleting a cost formulae in OpsCenter
- Estimating chargeback costs using the OpsCenter Formula Modeling Tool
- Settings > Chargeback > Cost Estimation options
- Monitoring OpsCenter tuning status
- Understanding data collection
- About configuring data collection for NetBackup
- Settings > Configuration > NetBackup options
- NetBackup data collection view
- How OpsCenter collects data from NetBackup
- About the Breakup Jobs option
- Viewing primary server details and data collection status
- Adding a primary server or appliance in OpsCenter
- Adding a NetBackup primary server
- Configuring a primary server or appliance primary server for server access and data collection by OpsCenter
- Settings > Configuration > NetBackup > Add Primary Server options
- Adding a primary server or an appliance primary server in the OpsCenter console
- Editing a primary server or an appliance primary server in OpsCenter
- Deleting a primary server or an appliance primary server in OpsCenter
- Controlling data collection for a primary server in OpsCenter
- About configuring data collection for NetBackup
- Managing OpsCenter views
- About OpsCenter views
- About managing OpsCenter views
- About managing nodes and objects in OpsCenter
- Adding nodes to a view in OpsCenter
- Modifying node details in OpsCenter
- Deleting nodes from a view in OpsCenter
- Managing static views
- Managing dynamic views
- View filters in OpsCenter
- Setting up logging for View Builder
- Monitoring NetBackup using OpsCenter
- About the Monitor views
- Controlling the scope of Monitor views
- About monitoring NetBackup using the Overview tab
- Viewing the Job Summary by State
- Viewing the Media Summary by Status
- About Top 7 Job Error Log Summary
- Viewing the Services Summary
- Viewing the Primary Server Summary
- Viewing the Job Summary by Job Status
- Viewing the Drive Summary by Status
- Top 7 Policies by Failed Jobs
- Viewing the Alert Summary by Severity
- About monitoring NetBackup jobs
- Monitor > Jobs List View options
- About monitoring jobs using the List View
- Viewing the details for a single NetBackup job
- Viewing the details for a primary server associated with a job
- Viewing policy information for a job
- Filtering on NetBackup job type and state
- Controlling NetBackup jobs
- Reconciling NetBackup jobs
- Changing the job priority
- Change Job Priority dialog box options
- Exporting NetBackup job logs
- About using the Summary View for monitoring jobs
- Viewing the Job Summary by Job Status
- Viewing the Job Summary by State
- Viewing the Job Summary by Type
- About the Group Component Summary table
- About using the Hierarchical View for monitoring jobs
- Viewing the details for a single NetBackup job
- Viewing the details for a primary server associated with a job
- Viewing policy information for a job
- Filtering on NetBackup job state
- Monitor > Services view
- Filtering on NetBackup service type
- Controlling NetBackup services
- About monitoring NetBackup policies
- Monitor > Policies List View
- About using the List View to monitor NetBackup policies
- Filtering on NetBackup policy type
- Monitor > Policies page
- Viewing details for a single NetBackup policy
- Viewing the details for a primary server associated with a policy
- Viewing the details for a volume pool associated with a policy
- Activating or deactivating a job policy
- Starting a manual backup
- Viewing the history for a single job policy
- Monitor > Policies Summary View
- About Top 5 Policies by Data Backed up
- About Top 7 Policies by Failed Jobs
- About Top 7 Policies by No. of Jobs
- About monitoring NetBackup media
- Monitor > Media List View options
- About using the List View to monitor NetBackup media
- Viewing the details for NetBackup media
- Viewing the details for a primary server associated with the media
- Filtering on NetBackup media type
- Controlling media
- Monitor > Media Summary View options
- Hierarchical View by Volume Pool for monitoring media
- Viewing the details for volume pool
- Viewing the details for media
- Controlling media
- Hierarchical View by Volume Group for monitoring media
- Viewing the details for a volume group
- Viewing the details for media
- Controlling media in OpsCenter
- Monitoring NetBackup devices
- Monitor > Devices > Drives List View options
- About using the List View for monitoring drives
- Viewing the details for a single drive
- Viewing the details for a primary server associated with a drive
- Filtering on NetBackup drive category
- Controlling drives
- Monitor > Devices > Drives Summary View
- Viewing the Drive Summary by Status
- Monitor > Devices > Disk Pools options
- Viewing the details for a single disk pool
- About monitoring NetBackup hosts
- Monitor > Hosts > Primary Servers view
- Filtering by NetBackup primary server type and status
- Monitor > Hosts > Media Servers view
- Viewing the details of a primary server that is associated with a media server
- Monitor > Hosts > Clients view
- Viewing the details for a single primary server
- About monitoring NetBackup alerts
- Monitor > Alerts List View
- About using the List View to monitor NetBackup alerts
- Viewing the details for a single alert
- Viewing the details of a single alert for Appliance hardware failure
- Viewing the details of the alert policy associated with an alert
- Filtering by alert type
- Responding to alerts
- Summary View for monitoring NetBackup alerts
- Viewing alerts by severity
- Viewing alerts by NetBackup Primary Server
- About monitoring Audit Trails
- Monitor > Appliance Hardware > Primary Server
- Monitor > Appliance Hardware > Media Server
- Monitor > Appliance Hardware > NetBackup
- Appliance hardware details
- Monitor > Cloud options
- Managing NetBackup using OpsCenter
- About the Manage views
- Controlling the scope of Manage views
- About managing alert policies
- About OpsCenter alert policies
- Manage > Alert Policies view
- Viewing the details for a single alert policy
- Filtering on type of alert policy
- About creating (or changing) an alert policy
- Managing an alert policy
- Viewing the alerts associated with 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
- Setting up for Guided Recovery cloning
- Guided Recovery cloning pre-operation checks
- Performing a Guided Recovery cloning operation
- Select a Master Server dialog
- Select Source Database panel
- Select Control File Backup panel
- Destination host and login panel
- Destination Parameters panel
- Selection summary panel
- Pre-clone check panel
- Job Details panel
- Guided Recovery post-clone operations
- Troubleshooting Guided Recovery
- About managing NetBackup Hosts
- About managing NetBackup Deployment Analysis
- About the traditional license report
- Prerequisites and data collection for a traditional licensing report
- Traditional Licensing page
- Create Traditional Licensing Report Wizard
- Generating a Traditional Licensing report
- Traditional Licensing report and log file locations
- Possible Traditional License report issues
- Capacity License report
- Data compilation for the Capacity License report
- Generating a Capacity Licensing report
- Possible Capacity License report issues
- Supporting Replication Director in OpsCenter
- About monitoring Replication Director from OpsCenter
- About the Open Storage alert condition
- How the events are generated
- Adding an alert policy
- About monitoring replication jobs
- Disk pool monitoring
- Storage lifecycle policy reporting
- Reporting on storage units, storage unit groups, and storage lifecycle policies
- Understanding and configuring OpsCenter alerts
- About using SNMP
- About SNMP
- About SNMP versions
- SNMP versions supported in OpsCenter
- About the Management Information Base (MIB) and OpsCenter support
- SNMP traps
- Alert descriptions in OpsCenter
- Configuring the SNMP trap community name for OpsCenter
- Configuring the SNMP version for sending SNMP traps
- About customizing Alert Manager settings
- Frequently asked SNMP and OpsCenter questions
- About managing OpsCenter alerts using Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007
- About managing OpsCenter alerts using HP OpenView Network Node Manager 7.50/7.51 on Windows
- About using SNMP
- Reporting in OpsCenter
- About OpsCenter reports
- Report Templates in OpsCenter
- About managing reports in OpsCenter
- Save report and email report dialog boxes
- Saving an OpsCenter report
- Exporting an OpsCenter report
- File formats available in OpsCenter
- Emailing a report in OpsCenter
- Configuring number of rows in a tabular report for email or export
- Adding email recipients to an OpsCenter report mailing
- Add email recipients dialog box options
- Creating a custom report in OpsCenter
- Creating an OpsCenter report using SQL query
- About managing My Reports
- About managing My Dashboard
- About managing reports folders in OpsCenter
- Using report schedules in OpsCenter
- Reports > Schedules options
- 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
- About using CSV, TSV, and XML files to create views
- About creating CSV files
- About creating TSV files
- About creating XML files
- XML DTD structure
- DTD elements
- DTD <application> element
- DTD <objects> and <object> elements
- DTD <attribute> elements
- DTD <view> element
- DTD <node> elements
- DTD <aliaslevel> elements
- Examples of XML files
- Example 1: Adding an object
- Example 2: Adding a view
- Example 3: Updating an object
- Example 4: Merging objects
- Appendix D. Error messages in OpsCenter
- Index
Settings > User Preferences options
Use the General tab options as follows:
Table: General options
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Select a locale of your choice from the drop-down list. For example, if you select English as a default locale, all OpsCenter GUI screens use English as a default language. |
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Select a preferred time zone - either OpsCenter Server time zone or any other time zone from the Other drop-down list. OpsCenter displays time on the GUI screens according to the selected time zone. |
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Enter the time that is used as the start time of a day in reports. Report data is grouped depending on this start time. |
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Select this check box if you do not want to automatically refresh the OpsCenter GUI. By default, the auto-refresh option is enabled. |
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Enter auto-refresh interval in minutes. For example, if you want to refresh the OpsCenter GUI to show updated data after every 5 minutes, enter five in the text box. |
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This drop-down list shows the views for which you have permission. Select one of these views as the default view for the Monitor and Manage tabs in the OpsCenter console. By default, data for the selected view is shown in the Monitor and Manage tabs of the OpsCenter console. |
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This drop-down list shows the views for which you have permission. Select one of these views as the default view for report templates. By default, data for the selected view is shown when you run a report based on any of the report templates. |
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Select this check box if you want to select multiple nodes or view objects in the View Pane. When you check this option, you can see a check box next to each primary server or node in the View Pane. To view data for multiple primary servers and nodes, you check the corresponding check boxes and then click . By default, the multiple-selection option is enabled. When you uncheck the multiple-selection option, you can only select a single node or view object from the View Pane at a given time. Each node or a view object is a link. You can click a node or a view object to view data for the respective node or view object. For example, you can click a primary server in the View Pane to view data for the specific primary server. See About making multiple or single-click selections in the View pane. When you uncheck the multiple-selection option, a Group Component Summary table is displayed when you click and select from the drop-down list. The Group Component Summary table at the bottom of the view displays job summary information. It shows the immediate NetBackup constituents of the selected view or node (group) in the View pane. For example if you select the ALL PRIMARY SERVERS view, the Group Component Summary table displays job summary for each primary server. More details about the Group Component Summary table are available. |
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You can export a tabular report in various PDF formats. These preferences apply to standard reports only. Select one of the following PDF formats in which you want to export the tabular reports:
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Read and use the My Profile tab options as follows:
Table: My Profile options
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Displays the user name. |
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The OpsCenter security admin sets a default password for each user when it creates the profiles. The users that belong to the OpsCenterUsers domain can change their passwords after logging on . To change password, click the link. See Changing your OpsCenter password. The users from other domains cannot change their passwords using this option. |
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User Role |
The role of this user. |
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Domain Name |
The name of the domain to which this user belongs. |