Veritas NetBackup™ Virtual Appliance Documentation
- Getting to know the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- NetBackup Virtual Appliance product description
- Preparing to deploy the appliance
- Deploying and configuring the appliance
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance media server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance master server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance CloudCatalyst
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server
- Post initial configuration procedures
- Appliance common tasks
- Storage management
- About NetBackup Virtual Appliance storage configuration
- About viewing storage space information using the Show command
- About OpenStorage plugin installation
- About NetBackup Virtual Appliance storage configuration
- Deduplication pool catalog backup and recovery
- Network connection management
- Managing users
- About user name and password specifications
- About authenticating LDAP users
- About authenticating Active Directory users
- About authenticating Kerberos-NIS users
- About user authorization on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Creating NetBackup administrator user accounts
- Using the appliance
- About configuring Host parameters for your appliance on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- About Copilot functionality and Share management
- About NetBackup Virtual Appliance as a VMware backup host
- About running NetBackup commands from the appliance
- About mounting a remote NFS
- About Auto Image Replication from a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Monitoring the appliance
- About SNMP
- About Call Home
- Appliance security
- About Symantec Data Center Security on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Setting the appliance login banner
- Upgrading the appliance
- About upgrading to NetBackup Virtual Appliance software version 3.2
- Requirements and best practices for upgrading NetBackup appliances
- Methods for downloading appliance software release updates
- NetBackup client upgrades with VxUpdate
- Appliance restore
- Decommissioning and Reconfiguring
- Troubleshooting
- About disaster recovery
- About NetBackup support utilities
- Appliance logging
- Commands overview
- Appendix A. Appliance commands
- Appendix B. Manage commands
- Appendix C. Monitor commands
- Appendix D. Network commands
- Appendix E. Reports commands
- Appendix F. Settings commands
- Appendix G. Support commands
About STIG-compliant password policy rules
To comply with the Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), NetBackup Virtual Appliance automatically enforces a higher security password policy when the STIG option is enabled.
After the STIG option is enabled, all current user passwords that were created under the default policy remain valid. Once you are ready to change any user passwords, the STIG-compliant policy rules must be followed.
The following describes the STIG-compliant password policy rules:
Minimum characters: 15
Minimum numbers: 1
Minimum lowercase characters: 1
Minimum uppercase characters: 1
Minimum special characters: 1
Maximum consecutive repeating characters: 2
Maximum consecutive repeating characters of the same class: 4
Minimum number of different characters: 8
Minimum days for password change: 1
Maximum days for password change: 60
Dictionary words are not valid or accepted.
The last seven passwords cannot be reused
Note:
Password policy that is displayed on the interface is not translated in other languages. The password policy is displayed in English on Japanese and Chinese interfaces.
When the STIG option is enabled, it enforces a login lockout for any user that enters three consecutive incorrect passwords within 15 minutes. The lockout condition is in effect for seven days. To clear a lockout condition, contact Technical Support for assistance.
The STIG password age policy delays maintenance account password changes in the following scenarios:
For 24 hours, after you enable the STIG option.
For 24 hours, after you upgrade a STIG-enabled appliance
Any attempt to change the maintenance account password within 24 hours of either of these events results in failure. Make sure that you wait at least 24 hours after these events before you change the maintenance account password.