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Veritas NetBackup™ OpsCenter Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2017-11-30

Product(s): NetBackup (8.1)

User access rights and functions in OpsCenter user interface

The following tables provide information on OpsCenter users and the functions that they can perform in the OpsCenter user interface.

You can add AD / LDAP domain groups to OpsCenter to authorize all users from that group to access OpsCenter.

Table: OpsCenter user interface functions provides details of the OpsCenter user interface functions that authorized users or user groups can perform.

Table: OpsCenter user interface functions

OpsCenter functions	Tasks	Go to this topic
User Management	The User Management function includes the following tasks: Create, update, delete users. Create, update, delete user groups. Add, remove users from user groups. Assign, remove roles to users and user groups.	See About managing OpsCenter users .
OpsCenter Management	The OpsCenter Management function includes the following tasks: Add, Update, Delete Master Server Add, Update, Delete OpsCenter Agents Set default currency, SNMP, SMTP server	See Adding a master server or appliance in OpsCenter. See Editing a master server or an appliance master server in OpsCenter. See Deleting a master server or an appliance master server in OpsCenter. See About managing OpsCenter Agents. See About managing cost analysis and chargeback for OpsCenter Analytics. See About managing recipients in OpsCenter. See Configuring SMTP server settings for OpsCenter.
NetBackup Operations	The NetBackup Operations function includes the following tasks: Change states of the NetBackup entities as follows: Policy (Activate/De-active) Job (Stop/Start/Suspend/Resume) Media (Assign, Freeze, unfreeze ) Drives (Up/Down) Others	See Activating or deactivating a job policy. See Controlling NetBackup jobs. See Controlling media. See Controlling drives.
Backup and Recovery	The Backup and the Recovery function includes the following tasks: Execute manual backups. Search and restore files, folders, application (Oracle, SQL Server, and Exchange Server)	See Starting a manual backup.
Views Management	The Views Management function includes the following tasks: Create, update, or delete OpsCenter views and nodes. The ALL MASTER SERVERS view cannot be modified. Assign Read permission to users on OpsCenter views and nodes.	See About managing OpsCenter views. See User access rights and functions in OpsCenter user interface.
All Views Read	The All Views Read function includes the following tasks: View OpsCenter views and nodes.	See About managing OpsCenter views.
Report Execution	This function includes the following tasks: Execute report templates and public custom reports. Schedule canned and public custom reports. Create, update Dashboard.	See Creating an OpsCenter report using a Report Template. See Creating a custom report in OpsCenter. See About managing report schedules in OpsCenter. See About managing My Dashboard.
Custom Reports Note: This feature is available with the licensed (OpsCenter Analytics) version of the product.	This function includes the following tasks: Create, update, delete custom reports. Make custom reports public, private, or both.	See Creating a custom report in OpsCenter.
Custom SQL Reports Note: This feature is available with the licensed (OpsCenter Analytics version) of the product.	This function includes the following tasks: Create, update, delete custom SQL reports.	See Creating an OpsCenter report using SQL query.
Monitoring	Monitoring includes the following tasks: View entities ( Dashboards, Summary, Details): Job, Policy, Media, Alerts, Drives, Others.	See chapter Monitoring NetBackup using OpsCenter
Alert Management	The Alert Management function includes the following tasks: .Create, update, delete alert policies. Assign, acknowledge, clear alerts.	See About creating (or changing) an alert policy. See Managing an alert policy .

OpsCenter users are categorized as follows:

Table: User categories

User	Description
Security Administrator	A Security Administrator is a super admin user who can perform all OpsCenter functions including user management. The OpsCenter Security Administrator can create, edit, or delete users.
Administrator	This user can perform all OpsCenter functions except for user management. The OpsCenter Administrator cannot create, edit, or delete users.
Operator	This user is not involved in the activities that are related to managing users, OpsCenter Server, and NetBackup configuration.
Restore Operator	The role of this user is to mainly perform restore operations. The Restore Operator can monitor, perform alert operations and run standard or custom reports.
Reporter	The role of this user is to mainly generate the operational and business-level reports for further analysis. A Reporter would be able to view only those schedules that they themselves create. The Security Administrator, Administrator, and Operator would however be able to access all the schedules.

Note:

You can also assign a user role to a user group of an authorized AD / LDAP domain. The same user role is assigned to each user of the authorized domain group.

Table: User roles lists the OpsCenter user roles and the OpsCenter UI functions that these users can perform.

Table: User roles

OpsCenter function	Security Administrator	Administrator	Operator	Restore Operator	Reporter
User Management	Y	N	N	N	N
OpsCenter Management	Y	Y	N	N	N
NetBackup Operations	Y	Y	Y	Partial (Only perform operations on Restore Jobs)	N
Backup and Recovery	Y	Y	Y	Y	N
Views Management	Y	Y	N	N	N
All Views Read	Y	Y	P	P	P
Report Execution	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Custom Reports	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Custom SQL Reports	Y	Y	Y	N	N
Monitoring	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Alert Management	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y

"Y" represents "Yes", which means that the users of this role can perform this particular OpsCenter function.

"N" represents "No", which means that the users of this role cannot perform this particular OpsCenter function.

P represents "Permission based", which means that users of this role need permission to perform the particular function.

See About managing OpsCenter users .