Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Security Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (4.0)
Platform: NetBackup Appliance OS
  1. About the NetBackup appliance Security Guide
    1.  
      About the NetBackup appliance Security Guide
  2. User authentication
    1. About user authentication on the NetBackup appliance
      1.  
        User types that can authenticate on the NetBackup appliance
    2. About configuring user authentication
      1.  
        Generic user authentication guidelines
    3.  
      About authenticating LDAP users
    4.  
      About authenticating Active Directory users
    5.  
      About authentication using smart cards and digital certificates
    6.  
      About authenticating Kerberos-NIS users
    7.  
      About the appliance login banner
    8. About user name and password specifications
      1.  
        About STIG-compliant password policy rules
  3. User authorization
    1.  
      About user authorization on the NetBackup appliance
    2. About authorizing NetBackup appliance users
      1.  
        NetBackup appliance user role privileges
    3.  
      About the Administrator user role
    4.  
      About the NetBackupCLI user role
    5.  
      About user authorization in NetBackup
  4. Intrusion prevention and intrusion detection systems
    1.  
      About Symantec Data Center Security on the NetBackup appliance
    2.  
      About the NetBackup appliance intrusion prevention system
    3.  
      About the NetBackup appliance intrusion detection system
    4.  
      Reviewing SDCS events on the NetBackup appliance
    5.  
      Running SDCS in unmanaged mode on the NetBackup appliance
    6.  
      Running SDCS in managed mode on the NetBackup appliance
  5. Log files
    1.  
      About NetBackup appliance log files
    2.  
      Viewing log files using the Support command
    3.  
      Where to find NetBackup appliance log files using the Browse command
    4.  
      Gathering device logs on a NetBackup appliance
    5.  
      Log Forwarding feature overview
  6. Operating system security
    1.  
      About NetBackup appliance operating system security
    2.  
      Major components of the NetBackup appliance OS
    3.  
      Vulnerability scanning of the NetBackup appliance
    4.  
      Disable user access to the NetBackup appliance operating system
    5.  
      Manage support access to the maintenance shell
  7. Data security
    1.  
      About data security
    2.  
      About data integrity
    3.  
      About data classification
    4. About data encryption
      1.  
        KMS support
  8. Web security
    1.  
      About SSL usage
    2.  
      Implementing third-party SSL certificates
  9. Network security
    1.  
      About IPsec Channel Configuration
    2.  
      About NetBackup appliance ports
    3.  
      About the NetBackup Appliance firewall
  10. Call Home security
    1. About AutoSupport
      1.  
        Data security standards
    2. About Call Home
      1.  
        Configuring Call Home from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
      2.  
        Enabling and disabling Call Home from the appliance shell menu
      3.  
        Configuring a Call Home proxy server from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
      4.  
        Understanding the Call Home workflow
    3. About SNMP
      1.  
        About the Management Information Base (MIB)
  11. Remote Management Module (RMM) security
    1.  
      Introduction to IPMI configuration
    2.  
      Recommended IPMI settings
    3.  
      RMM ports
    4.  
      Enabling SSH on the Remote Management Module
    5.  
      Replacing the default IPMI SSL certificate
  12. STIG and FIPS conformance
    1.  
      OS STIG hardening for NetBackup appliance
    2.  
      Unenforced STIG hardening rules
    3.  
      FIPS 140-2 conformance for NetBackup appliance
  13. Appendix A. Security release content
    1.  
      NetBackup Appliance security release content
  14.  
    Index

About authentication using smart cards and digital certificates

The NetBackup Web UI supports authentication of Active Directory (AD) or Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) domain users with a digital certificate or smart card, including CAC and PIV. This authentication method only supports one AD or LDAP domain for each appliance primary server domain and is not available for local domain users. You must configure LDAP for NetBackup, even if LDAP is already configured on the appliance.

Note:

Perform this configuration separately for each appliance primary server domain where you want to use this authentication method.

Ensure that you add the AD or the LDAP domain before you add access rules for domain users or configure the domain for smart card authentication. Use the vssat command to add AD or LDAP domains.

To add the AD or the LDAP domain for NetBackup

  1. Log on to the appliance primary server as a NetBackupCLI user.
  2. Run the vssat command.

    vssat addldapdomain -d DomainName -s server_URL -u user_base_DN -g group_base_DN -t schema_type -m admin_user_DN

    Replace the variables in the above command as per the following descriptions:

    • DomainName is a symbolic name that uniquely identifies an LDAP domain.

    • server_URL is the URL of the LDAP directory server for the given domain. The LDAP server URL must start with either ldap:// or ldaps://. Starting with ldaps:// indicates that the given LDAP server requires SSL connection. For example ldaps://my-server.myorg.com:636.

    • user_base_DN is the LDAP-distinguished name for the user container. For example, ou=user,dc=mydomain,dc=myenterprise,dc=com.

    • group_base_DN is the LDAP-distinguished name for the group container. For example, ou=group,dc=mydomain,dc=myenterprise,dc=com.

    • schema_type specifies which type of LDAP schema to use. The two default schema types that are supported are rfc2307 or msad.

    • admin_user_DN is a string that contains the DN of the administrative user or any user that has search permission to the user container, or user subtree as specified by UserBaseDN. If the user container is searchable by anyone including an anonymous user, you can configure this option as an empty string. For example, --admin_user=. This configuration allows anyone to search the user container.

  3. Verify that the specified AD or LDAP domain was successfully added using vssat validateprpl. Note that you can also use the vssat command with the following options:

    • vssat removeldapdomain removes an LDAP domain from the authentication broker.

    • vssat validategroup checks the existence of a user group in domain provided.

    • vssat validateprpl checks the existence of a user in domain provided.

    For more details on the vssat command, see the Veritas NetBackup Commands Reference Guide

Configure role-based access control

After adding the AD and LDAP domains for NetBackup, you can use the nbasecadmin user to log on to the NetBackup Web UI and configure role-based access control for the NetBackup web UI. For more information about configuring RBAC for NetBackup appliance users, see the NetBackup Web UI Security Administrator's Guide.

Configure authentication for a smart card or digital certificate

You can use the nbasecadmin user to log on to the NetBackup Web UI and configure authentication for a smart card or digital certificate. Refer to the NetBackup Web UI Security Administrator's Guide for steps on performing the following procedures required for the configuration:

  • Configure NetBackup Web UI to authenticate users with a smart card or digital certificate.

  • Edit the configuration for smart card authentication.

  • Add a CA certificate that is used for smart card authentication.

  • Delete a CA certificate that is used for smart card authentication.