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Veritas NetBackup™ Virtual Appliance Documentation

Last Published: 2021-01-22

Product(s): Appliances (3.3.0.1)

Platform: NetBackup Virtual Appliance

Getting to know the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
1. NetBackup Virtual Appliance product description
2. NetBackup Virtual Appliance supported features
3. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance documentation
4. NetBackup Virtual Appliance 3.3.0.1 new features, enhancements, and changes
5. Known limitations of the NetBackup Virtual Appliance 3.3.0.1 release
6. Operational Notes for the NetBackup Virtual Appliance 3.3.0.1 release
Preparing to deploy the appliance
1. NetBackup Virtual Appliance product files (OVF templates)
2. NetBackup Virtual Appliance deployment methods
3. NetBackup Virtual Appliance deployment guidelines
  1. Configuration overview for NetBackup Virtual Appliance MSDP cloud applications
  2. NetBackup Virtual Appliance initial deployment checklist
Deploying and configuring the appliance
1. How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server
2. How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance media server
3. How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance master server
Post initial configuration procedures
1. About modifying the NetBackup Virtual Appliance settings
2. Adding a permanent license key if an evaluation license key expires
3. Managing license keys on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
Appliance common tasks
1. Common tasks in NetBackup Virtual Appliance
Storage management
1. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance storage configuration
2. About OpenStorage plugin installation
  1. Installing the OpenStorage plugin
  2. Uninstalling the OpenStorage plugin
Deduplication pool catalog backup and recovery
1. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance deduplication pool catalog backup policy
2. Automatic configuration of the NetBackup Virtual Appliance deduplication pool catalog backup policy
3. Manually configuring the NetBackup Virtual Appliance deduplication pool catalog backup policy
4. Manually updating the NetBackup Virtual Appliance deduplication pool catalog backup policy
5. Recovering the NetBackup Virtual Appliance deduplication pool catalog
Network connection management
1. About IPv4-IPv6-based network support
2. Network settings for the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
3. Configuring DNS and host name mapping for the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
4. Setting the date and time on a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
5. Configuring static routes on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
6. Expanding the bandwidth on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
Managing users
1. About managing NetBackup Virtual Appliance users
2. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance account types
3. Adding NetBackup Virtual Appliance users
4. Deleting NetBackup Virtual Appliance users
5. Adding NetBackup Virtual Appliance user groups
6. Deleting NetBackup Virtual Appliance user groups
7. Granting roles to NetBackup Virtual Appliance users and user groups
8. Revoking roles from NetBackup Virtual Appliance users and user groups
9. About user name and password specifications
  1. About STIG-compliant password policy rules
10. Changing NetBackup Virtual Appliance user passwords
11. About password management and recovery
12. About authenticating LDAP users
13. About authenticating Active Directory users
  1. Adding an Active Directory server configuration
  2. Unconfiguring Active Directory user authentication on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
14. About authentication using smart cards and digital certificates
15. About authenticating Kerberos-NIS users
  1. Adding a Kerberos-NIS authentication configuration on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
  2. Unconfiguring Kerberos-NIS user authentication on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
16. Generic user authentication guidelines
17. About user authorization on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
18. Creating NetBackup administrator user accounts
19. Deleting NetBackup administrator user accounts
Using the appliance
1. About configuring Host parameters for your appliance on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
2. About Copilot functionality and Share management
3. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance as a VMware backup host
  1. NetBackup Virtual Appliance as backup host: component overview
  2. Notes on NetBackup Virtual Appliance as a VMware backup host
4. About running NetBackup commands from the appliance
5. About mounting a remote NFS
  1. Mounting a remote NFS drive
  2. Unmounting an NFS drive
6. About Auto Image Replication from a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
7. Generating certificates
Monitoring the appliance
1. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance alerts
2. Setting up email notifications for a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
3. Setting up SNMP notifications for a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
4. Enabling and disabling Call Home from the appliance shell menu
5. Configuring a Call Home proxy server from the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
6. About SNMP
  1. About the Management Information Base (MIB)
7. About Call Home
  1. Understanding the Call Home workflow
  2. About the Product Improvement Program
8. About AutoSupport
9. About storage email alerts
Appliance security
1. About Symantec Data Center Security on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
2. About data security
3. About data integrity
4. About data classification
5. About data encryption
6. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance intrusion detection system
7. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance intrusion prevention system
8. Major components of the NetBackup Virtual Appliance OS
9. OS STIG hardening for NetBackup Virtual Appliance
10. Unenforced STIG hardening rules
11. FIPS 140-2 conformance for NetBackup Virtual Appliance
12. Vulnerability scanning of the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
13. About the appliance login banner
14. Setting the appliance login banner
  1. Creating the appliance login banner
  2. Removing the appliance login banner
15. Log Forwarding feature overview
Upgrading the appliance
1. About upgrading to NetBackup Virtual Appliance software version 3.3.0.1
2. Requirements and best practices for upgrading NetBackup appliances
  1. Upgrade time estimation
3. Pre-upgrade tasks for appliance upgrades
4. Methods for downloading appliance software release updates
  1. Downloading software updates directly to a NetBackup appliance
  2. Downloading software updates to a NetBackup appliance using a client share
5. Installing a NetBackup Virtual Appliance software update using the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
6. Troubleshooting upgrade issues
NetBackup client upgrades with VxUpdate
1. About VxUpdate
2. VxUpdate repository management
3. Deployment policy management
4. Manually initiating upgrades from the master server using VxUpdate
5. Manually initiating upgrades from the client using VxUpdate
6. Deployment job status
Appliance restore
1. About appliance restore
2. Creating an appliance checkpoint from the appliance shell menu
3. Rollback to an appliance checkpoint from the appliance shell menu
4. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance factory reset
5. Factory reset best practices
6. How to factory reset the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
Decommissioning and Reconfiguring
1. About decommissioning a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
2. Decommissioning a NetBackup Virtual Appliance with the media server role
Troubleshooting
1. About troubleshooting the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
2. About contacting Technical Support
3. Determining the NetBackup Virtual Appliance serial number
4. About disaster recovery
  1. Recovering a NetBackup appliance master server using NetBackup catalog restore
5. About NetBackup support utilities
  1. NetBackup Domain Network Analyzer (NBDNA)
  2. NetBackup Support Utility (NBSU)
6. Troubleshooting NetBackup Virtual Appliance initial deployment issues
7. Error messages displayed on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
8. NetBackup status codes applicable for NetBackup Virtual Appliance
9. Installing an EEB
10. Rolling back an EEB using the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
Appliance logging
1. About NetBackup Virtual Appliance log files
2. Viewing log files using the Support command
3. Where to find NetBackup Virtual Appliance log files using the Browse command
4. Enabling and disabling VxMS logging
5. Gathering device logs on a NetBackup virtual appliance
6. About forwarding logs to an external server
Commands overview
1. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
2. Logging in to the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
3. Using the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu
4. About the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu command views
Appendix A. Appliance commands
1. Appliance > Master
2. Appliance > Media
3. Appliance > ShowDedupPassword
4. Appliance > Status
5. Appliance > Configure
Appendix B. Manage commands
1. Manage > Software > Delete
2. Manage > Software > Download
3. Manage > Software > List
4. Manage > Software > Install
5. Manage > Software > Share
6. Manage > Software > Readme
7. Manage > Software > Rollback
8. Manage > Software > Cancel
9. Manage > Software > DownloadProgress
10. Manage > Software > UpgradeStatus
11. Manage > Software > VxUpdate
12. Manage > Storage > Show
13. Manage > Storage > Add
14. Manage > Storage > Create
15. Manage > Storage > Delete
16. Manage > Storage > Edit
17. Manage > Storage > Monitor
18. Manage > Storage > Move
19. Manage > Storage > Remove
20. Manage > Storage > Resize
21. Manage > Storage > Scan
22. Manage > OpenStorage > Install
23. Manage > OpenStorage > List
24. Manage > OpenStorage > Readme
25. Manage > OpenStorage > Share
26. Manage > OpenStorage > Uninstall
27. Manage > MountPoints > List
28. Manage > MountPoints > Mount
29. Manage > MountPoints > Unmount
30. Manage > License > Add
31. Manage > License > List
32. Manage > License > ListInfo
33. Manage > License > Remove
34. Manage > Certificates > Generate
35. Manage > Certificates > Delete
36. Manage > NetBackupCLI > Create
37. Manage > NetBackupCLI > Delete
38. Manage > NetBackupCLI > List
Appendix C. Monitor commands
1. Monitor > Uptime
2. Monitor > Who
3. Monitor > NetworkStatus
4. Monitor > Top
5. Monitor > MemoryStatus
6. Monitor > SDCS
7. Monitor > NetBackup
8. Monitor > Hardware
Appendix D. Network commands
1. Network > Configure
2. Network > Date
3. Network > DNS
4. Network > Gateway
5. Network > Hostname
6. Network > Hosts
7. Network > IPv4
8. Network > IPv6
9. Network > LinkAggregation
10. Network > NetStat
11. Network > NTPServer
12. Network > Ping
13. Network > SetProperty
14. Network > Show
15. Network > TimeZone
16. Network > TraceRoute
17. Network > Unconfigure
18. Network > WANOptimization
Appendix E. Reports commands
1. Reports > Deduplication
2. Reports > Process
Appendix F. Settings commands
1. Settings > Deduplication
2. Settings > LifeCycle
3. Settings > LogForwarding
4. Settings > NetBackup
5. Settings > Password
6. Settings > SystemLocale
7. Settings > Share
8. Settings > Sysctl
9. Settings > NetBackup DNAT
10. Settings > NetBackup NATServers
11. Settings > Notifications > LoginBanner
12. Settings > Security > Authentication > LDAP
13. Settings > Security > Authentication > ActiveDirectory
14. Settings > Security > Authentication > Kerberos
15. Settings > Security > Authentication > LocalUser
16. Settings > Security > Authorization
17. Main > Settings > Security > Certificate
18. Main > Settings > Security > STIG
19. Main > Settings > Security > FIPS
20. Settings > Alerts > CallHome
21. Settings > Alerts > SNMP
22. Settings > Alerts > Email
23. Settings > Alerts > Hardware
Appendix G. Support commands
1. Support > Checkpoint
2. Support > DataCollect
3. Support > Disk
4. Support > Errors
5. Support > FactoryReset
6. Support > InfraServices
7. Support > iostat
8. Support > LogBrowser
9. Support > Logs
10. Support > Maintenance
11. Support > Messages
12. Support > NBDNA
13. Support > nbperfchk
14. Support > NBSU
15. Support > Processes
16. Support > Reboot
17. Support > Service
18. Support > Shutdown
19. Support > Storage SanityCheck
20. Support > Storage Reset
21. Support > Test

About authenticating LDAP users

The NetBackup Virtual Appliance uses the built-in Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) plug-in to support the authentication of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) users. This functionality allows users belonging to an LDAP directory service to be added and authorized to log on to a NetBackup Virtual Appliance. LDAP is considered as another type of user directory with a schema installed on it by UNIX services.

Pre-requisites for using LDAP user authentication

The following describes the pre-requisites and requirements for using LDAP user authentication on the appliance:

The LDAP schema must be RFC 2307 or RFC 2307bis compliant.
The following firewall ports must be open:
- LDAP 389
- LDAP OVER SSL/TLS 636
- HTTPS 443
Ensure that the LDAP server is available and is set up with the users and user groups that you want to register with the appliance.
Note:
As a best practice, do not use group names or user names that are already used for appliance local users or NetBackupCLI users. Additionally, do not use the appliance default names admin or maintenance for LDAP users.
The appliance does not handle ID mapping for LDAP configuration. Veritas recommends that you reserve a user ID and group ID range of 1000 to 1999 for appliance users only.

Configuration methods for LDAP user authentication

Before registering new LDAP users and user groups on the appliance, you must configure the appliance to communicate with the LDAP server. Once the configuration is complete, the appliance can access the LDAP server user information for authentication.

2FA

Starting with appliance release 3.2, NetBackup appliances support two-factor authentication (2FA) for Active Directory (AD) or Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) domain users with the NetBackup Web UI. The following describes the 2FA support for the 3.2 release:

The nbasecadmin user or any user with the NetBackup Adminstrator role can configure 2FA for the NetBackup Web UI.
2FA is only supported for AD or LDAP domain users with the NetBackup™ Web UI. The 2FA feature is not currently supported through the NetBackup Virtual Appliance Shell Menu or NetBackup Virtual Appliance Web Console.
2FA configuration requires separate AD or LDAP configuration for NetBackup, even if AD or LDAP is already configured on the appliance.
For details about how to enable 2FA, see the following topic:
See About authentication using smart cards and digital certificates.

For detailed instructions on how to configure and manage LDAP user authentication on the appliance, refer to the following topics:

See Adding or modifying an LDAP server configuration on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance.

See Importing an LDAP server configuration for the NetBackup Virtual Appliance.

See Exporting an LDAP server configuration from the NetBackup Virtual Appliance.

See Setting the SSL certification for LDAP on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance.

See Adding an LDAP attribute mapping on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance.

See Deleting an LDAP attribute mapping on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance.

See Unconfiguring LDAP user authentication on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance.

See Disabling LDAP user authentication on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance.

See Enabling LDAP user authentication on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance.

Once LDAP authentication is configured, you can add LDAP users and user groups on the appliance with the Settings > Security > Authentication > LDAP commands.

See Adding NetBackup Virtual Appliance users.

See Adding NetBackup Virtual Appliance user groups.

More Information

Generic user authentication guidelines

About authenticating Active Directory users

About authenticating Kerberos-NIS users

About managing NetBackup Virtual Appliance users