NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
- Section I. About NetBackup
- Introducing NetBackup
- About NetBackup
- NetBackup documentation
- NetBackup web UI features
- NetBackup administration interfaces
- Terminology
- First-time sign in to the NetBackup web UI
- Sign in to the NetBackup web UI
- Sign out of the NetBackup web UI
- Documentation for catalog recovery, disk pools, disk array hosts, and host properties in the NetBackup web UI
- Administering NetBackup licenses
- Introducing NetBackup
- Registering the data collector
- Section II. Monitoring and notifications
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- The NetBackup dashboard
- 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, copy, or delete a jobs filter
- Import or export job filters
- View the status of a redirected restore
- Troubleshooting the viewing and managing of jobs
- Device monitor
- Notifications
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- Section III. Configuring 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 CyberArk
- Configure external credentials
- Add a configuration for an external CMS server
- Edit or delete the configuration for an external CMS server
- Add a credential for Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP)
- Edit or delete Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) credentials in NetBackup
- Troubleshooting the external CMS server issue
- Managing deployment
- Section IV. Configuring storage
- Overview of storage options
- Configuring storage units
- Configuring disk storage
- About configuring BasicDisk storage
- About configuring disk pool storage
- Create a disk pool
- Editing a disk pool
- Create a Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP, MSDP Cloud) storage server
- Editing a storage server
- Integrating MSDP Cloud and CMS
- Create a Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) storage server for image sharing
- Create an AdvancedDisk, OpenStorage (OST), or Cloud Connector storage server
- Using image sharing from the NetBackup web UI
- Managing media servers
- Managing tape drives
- Change a drive comment
- About downed drives
- Change a drive operating mode
- Change a tape drive path
- Change the operating mode for a drive path
- Change tape drive properties
- Change a tape drive to a shared drive
- Clean a tape drive
- Delete a drive
- Reset a drive
- Reset the mount time of a drive
- Set the drive cleaning frequency
- View drive details
- Staging backups
- Troubleshooting storage configuration
- Section V. Configuring backups
- Overview of backups in the NetBackup web UI
- Managing protection plans
- Managing classic policies
- Protecting the NetBackup catalog
- About the NetBackup catalog
- Catalog backups
- The catalog backup process
- Prerequisites for backing up the NetBackup catalog
- Configuring catalog backups
- Backing up NetBackup catalogs manually
- Concurrently running catalog backups with other backups
- Catalog policy schedule considerations
- How catalog incrementals and standard backups interact on UNIX
- Determining whether or not a catalog backup succeeded
- Strategies that ensure successful NetBackup catalog backups
- Disaster recovery emails and the disaster recovery files
- Disaster recovery packages
- About disaster recovery settings
- Setting the passphrase to encrypt disaster recovery packages
- Recovering the catalog
- Managing backup images
- Pausing data protection activity
- Section VI. Managing security
- Security events and audit logs
- Managing security certificates
- Managing host mappings
- Configuring multi-person authorization
- About multi-person authorization
- Workflow to configure multi-person authorization for NetBackup operations
- RBAC roles and permissions for multi-person authorization
- Multi-person authorization process with respect to roles
- NetBackup operations that need multi-person authorization
- Configure multi-person authorization
- View multi-person authorization tickets
- Manage multi-person authorization tickets
- Add exempted users
- Schedule expiration and purging of multi-person authorization tickets
- Disable multi-person authorization
- Managing user sessions
- Configuring multi-factor authentication
- About multi-factor authentication
- Configure multi-factor authentication for your user account
- Disable multi-factor authentication for your user account
- Enforce multi-factor authentication for all users
- Configure multi-factor authentication for your user account when it is enforced in the domain
- Reset multi-factor authentication for a user
- Managing the global 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
- Disabling access to NetBackup interfaces for OS Administrators
- Section VII. Detection and reporting
- Section VIII. NetBackup workloads and NetBackup Flex Scale
- Section IX. Disaster recovery and troubleshooting
- Section X. Other topics
- Additional NetBackup catalog information
- About the NetBackup database
Create an AdvancedDisk, OpenStorage (OST), or Cloud Connector storage server
Use the following procedures to create AdvancedDisk, OpenStorage, or a Cloud Connector storage server.
Follow this procedure to create an AdvancedDisk storage server.
To create an AdvancedDisk storage server
- On the left, click Storage > Storage units. Click the Storage servers tab, then click Add..
- Select AdvancedDisk from the list.
- Select a media server list and enter a Storage server name click Select.
Follow this procedure to create an OpenStorage (OST) storage server.
To create an OpenStorage (OST) storage server
- On the left, click Storage > Storage units. Click the Storage servers tab, then click Add..
- Select OpenStorage (OST) from the list.
- In Basic properties, enter all required information and click Next.
You must select your media server by clicking on the field. If you do not see the media server you want to use, you can use Search to find it.
Use the drop-down to select the correct Storage server type.
- (Optional) In Media servers, click Add to add any additional media servers you want to use.
Click Next after selecting additional media servers or if you want to continue without selecting additional media servers.
- On the Review page, confirm that all options are correct and click Save.
After you click Save, the credentials you entered are validated. If the credentials are invalid, click Change and you can correct the issue with the credentials.
- (Optional) At the top, click on Create disk pool.
Follow this procedure to create a Cloud storage server.
To create a Cloud storage server
- On the left, click Storage > Storage units. Click the Storage servers tab, then click Add..
- Select Cloud connector from the list.
- In Basic properties, enter all required information and click Next.
You must select your Cloud storage provider by clicking on the field. If you do not see the cloud storage provider you want to use, you can use Search to find it.
If the Region information that you want to select does not appear in the table, use Add to manually add the required information. This option does not appear for every cloud storage provider.
You must select your media server by clicking on the field. If you do not see the media server you want to use, you can use Search to find it.
- In Access settings enter the required access details for the selected cloud provider and click Next.
If you use
SOCKS4,SOCKS5, orSOCKS4A, some of the options in the Advanced section are not available. - In Storage server options, you can adjust the Object size, enable compression, or encrypt data and then click Next.
- (Optional) In Media servers, click Add to add any additional media servers you want to use.
For Cloud storage servers, media servers with a NetBackup version older than primary server are not listed.
Click Next after selecting additional media servers or if you want to continue without selecting additional media servers.
- On the Review page, confirm that all options are correct and click Save.
- (Optional) At the top, click on Create disk pool.