Veritas NetBackup™ OpsCenter Administrator's Guide
- Overview of NetBackup OpsCenter
- About OpsCenter
- About OpsCenter components
- About starting the OpsCenter console
- About OpsCenter console components
- About the View pane
- Sizing the Content pane
- About using tables
- Installing OpsCenter
- About planning an OpsCenter installation
- About the OpsCenter licensing model
- Managed NetBackup master server considerations
- About designing your OpsCenter Server
- About planning an OpsCenter Agent deployment
- Installing OpsCenter on Windows and UNIX
- About OpsCenter upgrade on Windows and UNIX
- About post-installation tasks
- About uninstalling OpsCenter on Windows and UNIX
- About clustering OpsCenter
- About planning an OpsCenter installation
- OpsCenter Getting Started feature
- Administering OpsCenter
- About OpsCenter services and processes used by OpsCenter
- OpsCenter server scripts on Windows and UNIX
- About OpsCenter database administration
- About backup and restore of OpsCenter and OpsCenter Analytics
- About communication ports and firewall considerations in OpsCenter
- About OpsCenter log files
- Understanding OpsCenter settings
- Setting user preferences
- About managing licenses
- Configuring the data purge period on the OpsCenter Server
- Configuring SMTP server settings for OpsCenter
- Adding host aliases in OpsCenter
- Merging objects (hosts) in OpsCenter
- Modifying tape library information in OpsCenter
- Copying a user profile in OpsCenter
- Setting report export location in OpsCenter
- About managing Object Types in OpsCenter
- About managing OpsCenter users
- About adding AD / LDAP user groups in OpsCenter
- About managing recipients in OpsCenter
- About managing cost analysis and chargeback for OpsCenter Analytics
- Understanding data collection
- About data collection in OpsCenter
- About managing OpsCenter Agents
- About managing OpsCenter Data Collectors
- About configuring data collection for NetBackup
- About the Breakup Jobs option
- Viewing master server details and data collection status
- Collecting data from PureDisk
- Managing OpsCenter views
- About OpsCenter views
- About managing OpsCenter views
- View filters in OpsCenter
- Monitoring NetBackup using OpsCenter
- Controlling the scope of Monitor views
- About monitoring NetBackup using the Overview tab
- About monitoring NetBackup jobs
- Monitor > Services view
- About monitoring Audit Trails
- Managing NetBackup using OpsCenter
- About managing alert policies
- About creating (or changing) an alert policy
- About managing NetBackup storage
- About managing NetBackup devices
- About Operational Restore and Guided Recovery operations
- About Operational Restores from OpsCenter
- About OpsCenter Guided Recovery
- Troubleshooting Guided Recovery
- About managing NetBackup Hosts
- About managing NetBackup Deployment Analysis
- Data compilation for the Capacity License report
- Generating a Capacity Licensing report
- Supporting Replication Director in OpsCenter
- Understanding and configuring OpsCenter alerts
- About using SNMP
- About using SNMP
- Reporting in OpsCenter
- About OpsCenter reports
- Report Templates in OpsCenter
- About managing reports in OpsCenter
- Creating a custom report in OpsCenter
- About managing My Reports
- About managing My Dashboard
- About managing reports folders in OpsCenter
- About managing report schedules in OpsCenter
- About managing time schedules in OpsCenter
- Appendix A. Additional information on PureDisk data collection
- Appendix B. Attributes of NetBackup data
- Appendix C. Man pages for CLIs
- Appendix D. Creating views using CSV, TSV, and XML files
- Appendix E. Error messages in OpsCenter
About OpsCenter Analytics functions
The licensed version of Veritas NetBackup OpsCenter is called OpsCenter Analytics.
OpsCenter Analytics can perform the following functions:
Monitor NetBackup and NetBackup Appliance setups.
Manage or administer NetBackup and NetBackup Appliance setups.
See About monitoring and managing NetBackup and NetBackup appliances.
Note that OpsCenter Analytics can only monitor and manage NetBackup or NetBackup Appliance. It cannot monitor or manage other products like NetBackup PureDisk, Backup Exec, Deduplication Appliance and so on.
Generate alerts depending on the conditions that you have defined.
Create and customize views using OpsCenter View Builder.
Provide operational and business-level reporting on the following Veritas products:
Veritas NetBackup
Veritas NetBackup Appliance
Veritas NetBackup PureDisk
Veritas Backup Exec
Provide chargeback, custom, and custom SQL reports
OpsCenter Analytics displays customizable, multi-level views of backup resources and customizable reports for tracking service usage and expenditures. It also contains tools for defining cost metrics and chargeback formulas or handling alerts.
A wide range of audiences can benefit from the reporting capabilities and management capabilities of OpsCenter Analytics. The audiences include IT (Information Technology) managers, application owners, IT finance teams, external compliance auditors, legal teams, line-of-business managers, external customers, IT architects, and capacity planning teams.
The primary objectives of OpsCenter Analytics are as follows:
Help organizations assess their compliance with business standards by allowing them to accomplish the following:
Help organizations to establish the Service Level Agreements by reporting on them
Report to legal departments, auditors, IT managers, and administrators
Verify compliance with internal as well as external business-level regulations.
Identify risks in terms of shortfall of backup resources.
Assess the recovery of clients and applications.
Assist organizations in effective business planning by enabling them to do the following:
Estimate future backup requirements with the help of backup trend analysis.
Calculate the cost of data protection management and chargeback to customers and business units.