Veritas NetBackup™ OpsCenter Performance and Tuning Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (8.3.0.1, 8.3, 8.2, 8.1.2, 8.1.1, 8.1)
  1. Overview
    1.  
      Purpose of the guide
    2.  
      Disclaimer
  2. About OpsCenter configuration
    1.  
      OpsCenter Server configuration
    2. About OpsCenter Server on a virtual machine
      1.  
        Physical versus virtual configuration for OpsCenter Server
      2.  
        Guidelines on the OpsCenter VM parameters
      3.  
        About VM settings and % gains during OpsCenter report generation
    3.  
      OpsCenter database configuration
    4.  
      OpsCenter services
  3. About OpsCenter performance and tuning
    1.  
      Sizing considerations
    2.  
      Sizing guidelines
    3. About tuning OpsCenter for increased performance
      1.  
        About performance tuning guidelines
      2.  
        About adding NetBackup Master Servers to OpsCenter
      3.  
        About using a web browser to access OpsCenter
      4. About saving the OpsCenter log files on a different drive
        1.  
          Checking the debug level of logs
        2.  
          Saving the log files to a different location on Windows
        3.  
          Saving the log files to a different location on UNIX
      5. About adjusting the heap size or cache size for OpsCenter services
        1.  
          Adjusting the default heap size for the OpsCenter server service
        2.  
          Adjusting the default heap size for the OpsCenter web server service
        3.  
          Adjusting the default heap size for the OpsCenter Agent service
        4.  
          Adjusting the OpsCenter database service cache size
      6. About OpsCenter database defragmentation
        1.  
          Checking the disk fragment count
        2.  
          About allocating more memory before database defragmentation
        3.  
          Defragmenting the OpsCenter database
      7.  
        About purging data periodically
    4. Moving OpsCenter server to a different computer
      1.  
        About saving the files before moving the OpsCenter Server
      2.  
        Moving OpsCenter server because of constraints in upgrade
      3.  
        Moving OpsCenter server because of issues in the existing setup
  4. OpsCenter best practices
    1.  
      Network configuration best practices
    2. Installation and upgrade best practices
      1.  
        Things to avoid during installation and upgrade
    3. OpsCenter database best practices
      1.  
        Things to avoid while you use OpsCenter database
    4. Backup products best practices
      1.  
        Things to avoid while you collect data from backup products
    5.  
      OpsCenter Server best practices
    6.  
      OpsCenter reporting best practices
    7.  
      Best practices for antivirus configuration on Windows

Best practices for antivirus configuration on Windows

On a Windows platform, lack of appropriate filter settings or firewall settings may affect the OpsCenter server performance in an antivirus setup.

See Disclaimer.

Following are the best practices that you should follow while you configure an antivirus application on OpsCenter setup.

Note:

Assumption: Apart from OpsCenter, no other Veritas products are installed on the host.

  • Add the exclusion filters by excluding the following folders and contents:

    • **\Veritas\*

    • C:\Program Files\Symantec\*

    • C:\Program Files(x86)\Symantec\*

    • Database folder: Install_Path\OpsCenter\server\db\data

      This path is the default database path. If the database resides at a different location, exclude that path.

  • Exclude the following processes:

    • OpsCenterSrvService.exe

    • OpsCenterWebSrvService.exe

    • OpsCenterAgentService.exe

    • Ops_atd.exe

    • Dbsrvxx.exe

      Where xx is the Sybase database version

    • Pbx_exchange.exe

    • java.exe for OpsCenter Server service

    • java.exe for OpsCenter GUI service

  • Exclude the following firewall ports:

    • 80 (web services)

    • 443 (web services)

    • 1556 (PBX)

    • 13786 (database service)