Veritas NetBackup™ Flex Scale Administrator's Guide
- Product overview
- Viewing information about the NetBackup Flex Scale cluster environment
- NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure management
- User management
- Considerations for managing NetBackup Flex Scale users
- Adding users
- Changing user password
- Removing users
- Modifying user roles
- Considerations for configuring AD/LDAP
- Configuring AD server for Universal shares and Instant Access
- Configuring AD/LDAP servers for NetBackup services
- Configuring additional AD/LDAP servers for managing NetBackup services/Universal Shares/Instant Access
- Configuring AD/LDAP servers on clusters deployed with only media servers
- Directory services and certificate management
- Region settings management
- About NetBackup Flex Scale storage
- About Universal Shares
- Cloud bucket support for NetBackup Flex Scale
- Node and disk management
- NetBackup Flex Scale network cabling
- Adding a node to the cluster using the NetBackup Flex Scale web interface
- Adding a node using the REST APIs
- Replacing a node in a cluster
- Starting and stopping nodes
- Rebooting a node
- Adding an excluded node to the cluster
- Replacing a disk
- Adding an excluded disk to the cluster
- Viewing the disk sync status
- Viewing disk details
- Viewing node details
- Switching management console to another cluster node
- License management
- Stopping NetBackup service containers
- Starting NetBackup service containers
- Managing hardware vendor packages
- User management
- NetBackup Flex Scale network management
- About network management
- Modifying DNS settings
- About bonding Ethernet interfaces
- Bonding operations
- Configuring NetBackup Flex Scale in a non-DNS environment
- Data network configurations
- Choosing the correct input method for data network configuration
- Network configuration on plain device (eth5)
- Network configuration on VLAN (eth5)
- Network configuration on bonded interfaces (bond0 on eth5 and eth7)
- VLAN on bond of eth5 and eth7 (bond0)
- Network configuration on management interface (eth1)
- Network configurations for adding a partial data network
- Support for multiple VLAN when disaster recovery is configured
- Configuring static routes on a NetBackup Flex Scale cluster
- NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure monitoring
- Resiliency in NetBackup Flex Scale
- EMS server configuration
- Site-based disaster recovery in NetBackup Flex Scale
- About site-based disaster recovery in NetBackup Flex Scale
- Configuring disaster recovery using GUI
- Clearing the host cache
- Automated NetBackup SLP management
- DNS key management
- Managing disaster recovery using GUI
- Performing disaster recovery using RESTful APIs
- Active-Active disaster recovery configuration
- NetBackup optimized duplication using Storage Lifecycle Policies
- NetBackup Flex Scale security
- STIG overview for NetBackup Flex Scale
- FIPS overview for NetBackup Flex Scale
- Managing the login banner
- Changing the password policy
- Support for immutability in NetBackup Flex Scale
- Authenticating users using digital certificates or smart cards
- About system certificates on NetBackup Flex Scale
- Deploying external certificates on NetBackup Flex Scale
- Troubleshooting
- Services management
- Audit logs
- Collecting logs for cluster nodes
- Troubleshooting NetBackup Flex Scale issues
- If cluster configuration fails (for example because an IP address that was already in use is specified) and you try to reconfigure the cluster, the UI displays an error but the configuration process continues to run
- Validation error while adding VMware credentials to NetBackup
- NetBackup Web UI incorrectly displays some NetBackup Flex Scale processes as failed
- Unable to create BMR Shared Resource Tree (SRT) on NetBackup Flex Scale Appliance
- NetBackup configuration files are not persistent across operations that require restarting the system
- Appendix A. Maintenance procedures for HPE servers
- Replacement procedure for a chassis fan
- Replacement procedure for power supply
- Replacement procedure for a single OS disk
- Replacement procedure for both OS disks on the management console node
- Replacement procedure for both OS disks on a non- management console node
- Replacement procedure for NVMe disks (SSDs)
- Replacement procedure for RAID controller
- Replacement procedure for an Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) port
- Replacement procedure for quad-port NIC
- Procedure for memory expansion (DIMMs)
- Replacement procedure for memory (DIMMs)
- Replacement procedure for Mellanox port
- Appendix B. Configuring NetBackup optimized duplication
- Appendix C. Disaster recovery terminologies
- Appendix D. Configuring Auto Image Replication
Adding users
Perform the following steps to add users to the NetBackup Flex Scale cluster. Before you proceed, ensure that you have reviewed the considerations for user management in a NetBackup Flex Scale cluster.
See Considerations for managing NetBackup Flex Scale users.
To add a user to the NetBackup Flex Scale cluster
- Sign in to the NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure management console UI.
See About the NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure management UI.
- From the navigation menu on the left, click Settings and then click User management.
The User management pane displays all the users that currently exist in the cluster configuration.
- To add a new user, click Add.
- In the Add new user dialog box, specify the following parameters:
Parameter
Description
User name
Enter the username.
If the user has only Appliance administrator role, the following criteria apply:
The username can contain a maximum of 31 characters.
The username must not start with a number.
The username can include only underscore (_) and dash (-) as special characters.
The username must not be "root", "primary", "maintenance", or "sysadmin".
If the user has both Appliance administrator and Universal share user roles or only Universal share user role, the following criteria apply:
The username can contain a minimum of 4 characters.
The username can contain a maximum of 30 characters.
The username can contain only lowercase characters.
The username must not start with a number.
The username can include only underscore (_) and dash (-) as special characters.
The username must not be "root", "primary", "maintenance", or "sysadmin".
Password
Enter a password for the user account.
The following criteria apply:
The password should contain a minimum of 8 characters.
The password should include an uppercase, a lowercase, a number and a special character.
The password should include one of the following special characters !#$%&+,-.<=>@[]^_{|}~
No white spaces are allowed.
Dictionary words are invalid and not accepted.
If the STIG option is enabled, NetBackup Flex Scale automatically enforces a higher security password policy. See STIG-compliant password policy rules.
Confirm password
Enter the password again to confirm.
Assign 'Appliance administrator' role
Select this option to assign the NetBackup Flex Scale Appliance Administrator user role to the user account. You must assign a role for the user to be able to sign in to the cluster using the UI.
This user role has the permissions to manage all the infrastructure components in the NetBackup Flex Scale cluster.
Assign 'Universal share user' role
Select this option to assign the Universal share user role to the user account. This user role has the permissions to manage Universal shares/Instant Access in user mode.
Note:
The 'Universal share user' role is applicable to only local users.
Note:
You cannot assign the NetBackup Administrator role from this UI. You must use the NetBackup web UI to manage NetBackup role assignments to user accounts.
- Click Add.
The UI displays a message that confirms that the user addition operation is triggered. You can click View Details to see the progress of the operation.
Alternatively, you can also click the Recent Activity icon from the top right of the UI to see the status of the most recent operations occurring in the cluster.
- Once the operation completes verify that the new user you added appears in the list of users displayed in the User management pane.