Veritas NetBackup™ OpsCenter Administrator's Guide

About OpsCenter views

OpsCenter views are logical groups of IT assets (primary servers or clients) organized in a hierarchical manner. A Security Administrator or an Administrator can create views either from OpsCenter console or the OpsCenter View Builder (formerly called Java View Builder) and make them available in the OpsCenter console.

Figure: The Views tab shows the details that are displayed on the Views tab in the OpsCenter console.

Figure: The Views tab

In an OpsCenter view, IT assets that are scattered across organization can be arranged according to their locations, business units, or applications. You can generate various OpsCenter reports that are filtered by views. With these reports, you can identify the locations or departments with hosts storing business critical data.

After you install and run the OpsCenter Server, OpsCenter detects the IT assets, which are then stored in the database. The View Builder makes these IT assets available when a view is created.

In a view hierarchy, between top and bottom levels you can create a number of user-defined levels that are referred to as view nodes. An OpsCenter view is a homogeneous one, it cannot have hosts and file systems in the same tree.

Based on the method of adding objects to a view node, you can create a static view and a dynamic view. Views can be either static or dynamic at a time. Before you add objects to views, you can create a filter query to narrow your search for objects. If you add or remove objects manually to the view nodes, the view is referred to as static view. Instead of adding objects manually, if you create a filter query and then associate that query to a view node, the view is referred to as dynamic view.

In a static view, you can remove the objects manually. In dynamic views, you cannot directly remove the objects from the nodes. You need to first dissociate the query from the dynamic view.

Static views can contain dynamic view nodes. Dynamic views can contain static view nodes. If the parent view is static (even if it contains dynamic nodes), this view is considered as static. If the parent view is dynamic (even if it contains static nodes), this view is considered as dynamic. This is displayed on the view listing page. This view-based access control provides a better categorization and management of the views in OpsCenter.

See Managing static views.

See Managing dynamic views.