NetBackup IT Analytics User Guide

Inventory

Enables or restricts the ability to access to the Inventory tab.

Enable Access to Objects

Enables or restricts the ability to access to Inventory objects.

Arrays

Enables or restricts the access to the Array object in the Inventory. This includes the ability to export. Assigning attributes and permanent deletion are permissioned separately.

Azure Storage Account

Enables or restricts the access to the Azure Storage Accounts object. This includes the ability to export.

Azure Virtual Machine

Enables or restricts the access to the Azure Virtual Machines object. This includes the ability to export.

Backup Servers

Enables or restricts the access to the Backup Server object in the Inventory. This includes the ability to export. Assigning attributes and permanent deletion are permissioned separately.

Datastores

Enables or restricts the access to the Datastore object in the Inventory. This includes the ability to export. Assigning attributes and permanent deletion are permissioned separately.

Dedupe Appliances

Enables or restricts the access to the Dedupe Appliance object in the Inventory. This includes the ability to export. Assigning attributes and permanent deletion are permissioned separately.

File Shares & Volumes

Select to provide access to File Share & Volumes on the Inventory page. This includes the ability to export.

EC2 Instances

Select to provide access to Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 Instances on the Inventory page. This includes the ability to export.

Hosts

Enables or restricts the access to the Host object in the Inventory. This includes the ability to decommission, recommission, export and import objects. Assigning attributes and permanent deletion are permissioned separately.

S3 Buckets

Select to provide access to Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 Buckets on the Inventory page. This includes the ability to export.

Switches

Enables or restricts the access to the Switch object in the Inventory. This includes the ability to export. Assigning attributes and permanent deletion are permissioned separately.

VM Guests

Enables or restricts the access to the VM Guest object in the Inventory. This includes the ability to export. Assigning attributes and permanent deletion are permissioned separately.

VM Servers

Enables or restricts the access to the VM Server object in the Inventory. This includes the ability to export. Assigning attributes and permanent deletion are permissioned separately.

Manage Objects

Enables or restricts the ability to manage to Inventory objects.

All Objects: Permanently Delete

Enables or restricts the ability to permanently delete objects from the Inventory view and the database.

All Objects: Assign Attribute Values

Enables or restricts the ability to assign attributes and change an object's attribute values within the Inventory.

Hosts: Import from CSV

Enables the user to use a CSV file to add/update hosts from an external source and ultimately manage them from the Inventory.

Hosts: Add/Edit/Move

Enables or restricts access to add and modify Hosts. This includes moving (cutting and pasting) hosts from one Host Group to another.

Hosts: Recommission and Decommission

Enables or restricts he ability to recommission and decommission hosts and primary servers.

These are audited actions and the historical data is preserved in the database. Even with this privilege, a password is required for the action.

Host Groups: Add/Edit/Move

Enables or restricts access to add and modify Host Groups. This includes moving (cutting and pasting) one Host Group to another, allowing you to create sub groups.

Reports

Enables or restricts the ability to access to the Reports tab.

Access to reports within a product/group--for example, System Administration or Management Reports.

Access can be on a per-report basis or for an entire report menu group.

New reports must be explicitly enabled for users. Access is automatically granted for Super Users and Admins.

Enable Access to Cloud Reports

Enables access to new and updated reports delivered through the Cloud.

Dynamic Template Designer

Enables or restricts access to the Dynamic Template Designer - a tool that does not require Structured Query Language (SQL) knowledge to create custom report templates.

SQL Template Designer

Enables or restricts access to the SQL Template Designer - a tool to create custom report templates using SQL.

Alerts

Alert Configuration

Configure Thresholds & Alerts

Enables or restricts access to Alert Configuration.

Designers

Admin

Users

Users and Privileges

Enables or restricts access to view, search and modify user details. This includes editing group memberships, privileges and password resets.

User Groups

Enables or restricts access to view, search and modify user group details. This includes adding, editing user membership, and privileges. User groups provide an efficient way of managing many users at once.

Domains

Domains

Enables or restricts access to Domain administration. This includes the ability to add, edit and delete domains.

Chargeback

Backup

Select to provide access to Backup Billing and Usage Policy administration functions including adding, editing and deleting.

Capacity

Select to provide access to Capacity Billing and Usage Policy administration functions including adding, editing and deleting.

SAN Fabric

Select to provide access to SAN Fabric Billing and Usage Policy administration functions including adding, editing and deleting.

Solutions

Storage Optimization

Select to provide access to Storage Optimization and corresponding management functions.

Risk Mitigation

Select to provide access to Risk Mitigation and corresponding management functions.

Data Collection

Collection Status

Select to provide access to monitor the health and status of Data Collectors.

Collector Administration

Select to provide access to create and configure Collectors and Collector policies. Stop, start, edit, and policy deletion is also permitted. On-Demand collection runs are also available for supported vendors.

Host Discovery and Collection

Select to provide the ability to configure Host Resources Data Collection and manage the Host Discovery and Collection.

Collector Updates

Select to enable or restrict the view of the current status for data collectors. This area also provides access to the update the Upgrade Manager and aptare.jars.

Reports

Thresholds

Select to provide access to add, edit and delete Threshold Policies. Threshold Policies enable you to establish Low, Warning, and Critical levels from which to manage the state of your capacity utilization.

NetBackup Discovery

Select to provide access to the management and configuration of host discovery policies. The Discovery module is specific to NetBackup

Backup SLA

Select to provide access to add, edit and delete Backup Service Level Agreements (SLA) Group polices. When you establish an SLA, performance is tracked against objectives. The SLA policies are where objectives are set.

Primary Schedules

Select to provide access to creating and editing primary schedules. Primary schedules can be defined at a global level and then applied to specific saved reports, causing the reports to be emailed or exported on a regular basis.

Backup Windows

Select to provide access to add, edit and delete custom backup windows.

Method Designer

Enables or restricts the access to the Method Designer, an advanced feature that requires experience in SQL (Structured Query Language) query development. Methods can be used only in report templates that have been created using the Dynamic Template Designer.

Email/Export on Schedule

Select to provide the ability to email or export user reports based on an establish schedule.

Share Reports

Select to provide the ability to share custom reports and templates with users and user groups.

Create Ticket

Select to provide the ability to create tickets associated with backup jobs.

File List

File List Export

Enables or restricts access to the File List Exporter - a utility for extracting the File Analytics collected metadata into a comma-separated values (.csv) file.

Advanced

Parameters

Select to provide the ability to add, edit, delete and download advanced parameters. Advanced parameters are a mechanism for customizing internal settings with the help of Support.

Attributes

Select to provide the ability to create, edit and delete attributes and modify their values. Attributes define a distinct data set based on a specific characteristic.

Authorization Attributes

Publish Benchmark Data

Select to provide the ability to configure and enable sharing Performance Statistics with the organization. This enables customers to compare their performance with similarly configured arrays in the broader community, for customers to gauge if their environmental metrics are within a normal performance range.

Object Maintenance

Select to provide the ability to manage Devices, Libraries and Drives. Permanently delete and the assignment of attribute values are permitted operations.

Support Tools

Select to provide the ability to download data collector logs, portal logs and configuration files for a specified time period.

System Notifications

Select to provide the ability to view and manage system level notifications. Notifications alert the user to any issues that require attention.