NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
- Introducing the NetBackup web user interface
- Monitoring and notifications
- The NetBackup dashboard
- About the Activity monitor
- Job monitoring
- Workloads that require a custom RBAC role for specific job permissions
- View a job
- View the jobs in the List view
- View the jobs in the Hierarchy view
- Jobs: cancel, suspend, restart, resume, delete
- Search for or filter jobs in the jobs list
- Create a jobs filter
- Edit or delete a jobs filter
- Troubleshooting the viewing of jobs
- Job notifications
- NetBackup event notifications
- Section I. Managing hosts
- Managing host properties
- Managing credentials for workloads and systems that NetBackup accesses
- Overview of credential management in NetBackup
- Add a credential in NetBackup
- Add a credential for an external KMS
- Add a credential for NetBackup Callhome Proxy
- Edit or delete a named credential
- Add a credential for Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP)
- Edit or delete Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) credentials in NetBackup
- Managing deployment
- Section II. Configuring storage and backups
- Configuring storage
- About storage configuration
- Create a Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) storage server
- Create a Cloud storage, OpenStorage, or AdvancedDisk storage server
- Create a disk pool
- Create a storage unit
- Create a universal share
- Create a Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) storage server for image sharing
- Using image sharing from the NetBackup web UI
- Troubleshooting storage configuration
- Troubleshooting universal share configuration issues
- Using instant access for MS-Windows and Standard policies
- Overview of backups in the web UI
- Managing protection plans
- Managing classic policies
- Managing backup images
- Pausing data protection activity
- Configuring storage
- Section III. Managing security
- Security events and audit logs
- Managing security certificates
- Managing host mappings
- Managing user sessions
- Managing the security settings for the primary server
- Certificate authority for secure communication
- Disable communication with NetBackup 8.0 and earlier hosts
- Disable automatic mapping of NetBackup host names
- Configure the global data-in-transit encryption setting
- About NetBackup certificate deployment security levels
- Select a security level for NetBackup certificate deployment
- About TLS session resumption
- Set a passphrase for disaster recovery
- About trusted primary servers
- Using access keys, API keys, and access codes
- Configuring authentication options
- Managing role-based access control
- RBAC features
- Authorized users
- Configuring RBAC
- Notes for using NetBackup RBAC
- Add AD or LDAP domains
- View users in RBAC
- Add a user to a role (non-SAML)
- Add a smart card user to a role (non-SAML, without AD/LDAP)
- Add a user to a role (SAML)
- Remove a user from a role
- Disable web UI access for operating system (OS) administrators
- Disable command-line (CLI) access for operating system (OS) administrators
- Default RBAC roles
- Add a custom RBAC role
- Role permissions
- Manage access permission
- View access definitions
- Section IV. Detection and reporting
- Detecting malware
- About malware detection
- Configure a new scan host pool
- Add an existing scan host
- Manage credentials
- Remove the scan host
- Deactivate the scan host
- Scan a policy client backup images for malware
- Perform malware scanning
- Scan a VMware asset for malware
- View the malware scan status
- Actions for malware scanned images
- Recover from malware-affected images (clients protected by policies)
- Recover a VMware asset affected by malware
- Troubleshooting
- Detecting anomalies
- Usage reporting and capacity licensing
- Detecting malware
- Section V. NetBackup workloads and NetBackup Flex Scale
- Section VI. Disaster recovery and troubleshooting
Add a custom role for a Bare Metal Restore (BMR) administrator
To add a custom RBAC role
- On the left, select Security > RBAC and click Add.
- Select Custom role to manually configure all the permissions for the role.
- Provide a Role name and a description.
For example, you may want to indicate that the role is for any users that are BMR administrators.
- On the Global tab, expand the BMR section and select all the permissions for BMR.
Boot servers
View, Delete
Clients
View, Create, Update, Delete, Pre restore
VM conversion
View, Delete, VM conversion
- Expand the NetBackup management section.
Locate the NetBackup hosts group.
Select the following permissions:
NetBackup hosts
View, Update
Locate the NetBackup backup images group.
Select the following permissions:
NetBackup backup images
Image Requests > View
NetBackup backup images
View
- For ESXi servers, additional permissions are needed for Host properties.
On the Global tab, expand the NetBackup management section.
Select the following permissions:
Access hosts
View, Create, Update, Delete
- On the Assets tab, select the following permissions.
VMware assets
View, Update, View restore targets
- Click Assign.
- Under Workloads, click Assign.
Select the VMware assets that you want the role to have access to.
To give the role access to all VMware assets and future assets that you add, select Apply selected permissions to all existing and future VMware assets.
To select individual assets, deselect Apply selected permissions to all existing and future VMware assets and click Add.
For example, you can select one or more: datastores, datastore clusters, ESXi servers, ESXi clusters, resource pools, vApps.
- When you have added all the assets, click Assign.
- On the Users card, click Assign. Then add each user that you want to have access to this custom role.
- When you are done configuring the role, click Save.