NetBackup IT Analytics Help
- Section I. Introducing NetBackup IT Analytics
- Section II. What's New
- Section III. Certified configurations
- Introduction
- Portal and database servers
- Data Collector server configurations
- Capacity Manager configurations
- Array/LUN performance Data Collection
- EMC Isilon array performance metrics
- NetApp Cluster-Mode performance metrics
- EMC Symmetrix enhanced performance metrics
- Host access privileges, sudo commands, ports, and WMI proxy requirements
- Cloud configurations
- Virtualization Manager configurations
- File Analytics configurations
- Fabric Manager configurations
- Backup Manager configurations
- ServiceNow configurations
- Internal TCP port requirements
- Section IV. End user
- Understand the portal
- About the Admin tab
- Explore your inventory
- Hierarchy toolbar to organize your data
- Show objects
- Use attributes to organize your data
- Pin reports - saving reports with inventory objects
- Assign attributes in the inventory list view
- Get acquainted with reports
- About badging
- Generate and maintain reports
- Select Report Scope
- Group hosts by attributes
- Search for hosts in the report Scope Selector
- Backup Manager advanced scope selector settings
- Solution reports scope selector settings
- Units of Measure in Reports
- Customize report filter logic
- Sort columns in reports
- Convert tabular report to chart
- Distribute, share, schedule, and alert
- Schedule export of reports and dashboards
- Organize reports
- Work with the dynamic template designer
- Dynamic Template Designer Quick Start
- Converting to a Homogeneous, Product-Specific Template
- Dynamic Template Function Configurations
- Create Fields with the Field Builder
- Scope Selector Component - Custom Filter
- Configure a Bar Chart Dynamic Template
- Steps to Create a Bar Chart Dynamic Template
- Configure an Area/Stacked Area Chart Dynamic Template
- Line Charts for Performance Metrics
- Line Chart Field Requirements
- One Object Per Line Chart, One or More Metrics Per Chart
- Multiple Objects Per Line Chart, One Metric Per Chart
- Example of a Stacked Bar Chart Dynamic Template
- Create a Sparkline Chart in a Tabular Dynamic Template
- Adding or Editing Methods
- Validate and Save a Method
- Work with the SQL template designer
- Configure SQL Template Scope Selector Components
- Sample SQL Queries
- Number, Size, Date, and Time Formatting
- Alignment, Aggregation, Bar Type, and Bar Type Color
- Pipelined functions for report query building
- APTlistOfDates
- aptStringConcat
- getServerAttributeValue
- getObjectAttributeValue
- getChildServerGroupContextById
- getServerGroupContextById
- secsToHoursMinSecs
- APTgetTapeDriveStatusName
- getFullPathname
- listJobSummaryAfterRestart
- listJobSummaryAfterRestartNBW
- listJobSummaryAfterRestart for NetWorker Backup Jobs
- listOfBackupWindowDates
- listChargebackCatByVOLSDetail
- listChargebackCatByNcVolDetail
- listChargebackCatByFSDetail (for HNAS)
- listChargebackCatByFSDetail (for EMC Isilon)
- listChargebackByLUNSummary
- listChargebackByLUNDetail
- listChargebackCatByLUNSummary
- listChargebackCatByLUNDetail
- Alert configuration
- Add/Edit an Alert Policy
- About using SNMP
- Manage hosts, backup servers, and host groups
- NetBackup Primary Servers
- Manage attributes and objects
- Provide Portal access and user privileges
- Setting / Resetting passwords
- Managing user group home pages (Administrator)
- Configure primary schedules and backup windows
- Add, edit, and move policies
- Solutions administration
- Manage and monitor data collection
- About data collection tasks
- Add/Edit Data Collectors
- Review collectors and collection status
- Upgrade Data Collectors
- Work with Capacity Manager host data collection
- Host access requirements
- Manage credentials
- Configure host discovery policies to populate the host discovery and collection view
- Validate host connectivity
- Search and export in host discovery and collection
- Propagate probe settings: Copy probes, paste probes
- Discovery policies for Veritas NetBackup
- View and manage system notifications
- Customize with advanced parameters
- Access control advanced parameters
- General Data Collection advanced parameters
- Cloud data collection advanced parameters
- Host discovery and collection advanced parameters
- Backup Manager advanced parameters
- Capacity Manager advanced parameters
- File Analytics advanced parameters
- Virtualization Manager advanced parameters
- Manage your Portal environment
- Manage ransomware scorecard
- Analyze files
- Troubleshoot the Portal
- Retrieving log files
- Debug
- Attribute inheritance overrides
- Understand report data caching
- Understand the portal
- Section V. Report Reference
- Introduction to NetBackup IT Analytics
- Alert Reports
- Ransomware reports
- Risk Mitigation Solution Reports
- Risk Mitigation Reports
- Storage Optimization Solution Reports
- System Administration Reports
- Oracle Job Overview
- Capacity Manager Reports
- Application Capacity Reports
- Array Capacity Utilization Reports
- Array Capacity & Utilization (Generic Data)
- Array Capacity & Utilization (IBM SVC View)
- Array Capacity and Utilization (IBM XIV View)
- Array Capacity and Utilization (NetApp View)
- Array Capacity and Utilization (NetApp Cluster)
- NetApp Storage System Detail
- Array Capacity and Utilization (OpenStack Swift)
- IBM Array Site Summary
- IBM Array Detail
- LUN Utilization Summary
- NetApp Aggregate Detail
- NetApp Cluster-Mode Aggregate Detail
- NetApp Plex Details
- NetApp Volume Details
- NetApp Cluster-Mode Volume Detail
- NetApp StorageGrid Tenant Summary
- Available/Reclaimable Capacity Reports
- Capacity at Risk Reports
- Capacity Chargeback Reports
- Host Capacity Utilization Reports
- SnapMirror Reports
- SnapVault Reports
- Capacity Forecasting Reports
- Storage Performance Reports
- Mission Control for Performance Analysis
- Thin Provisioning Reports
- Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning Pool Utilization
- File Analytics Reports
- Virtualization Manager Reports
- Understanding the Datastore
- VM Server Detail
- VM Snapshot Summary
- VM Detail
- Datastore Utilization Summary
- Datastore Detail
- Fabric Manager Reports
- Host to Storage Dashboard
- Backup Manager Management Reports
- Error Log Summary
- Job Duration Report
- Veeam Backup & Replication Job Summary Report (Homogeneous)
- Veeam and RMAN Job Details Report
- Adding a Note to a Job
- Job Volume Summary Report
- NetBackup deduplication to MSDP savings
- Backup Administration Reports
- Host Details
- IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM) Storage Pools Dashboard
- Job Histogram
- EEBs on Primary server, Media server and Clients reports
- Backup Media Management Reports
- TSM Tape Media Detail Table
- Backup Service Level Agreement (SLA) Reports
- Determining and Improving Backup Start Time Performance
- Determining and Improving Backup Success Performance
- Determining and Improving Backup Duration Performance
- Backup Storage Utilization Reports
- Backup Manager Forecasting Reports
- Backup Billing and Usage Reports
- Backup Policies Reports
- HP Data Protector Backup Specification Detail
- Public Cloud Reports
- AWS Reports
- Microsoft Azure Reports
- Section VI. NetBackup IT Analytics Exporter Installation and Configuration
- Section VII. Data Collector Installation and Troubleshooting
- Installing the Data Collector Software
- Validating Data Collection
- Uninstalling the Data Collector
- Manually Starting the Data Collector
- Data Collector Troubleshooting
- Host resources: Check host connectivity using standard SSH
- Host resources: Generating host resource configuration files
- Configuring parameters for SSH
- CRON Expressions for Policy and Report Schedules
- Clustering Data Collectors with VCS and Veritas NetBackup (RHEL 7)
- Clustering Data Collectors with VCS and Veritas NetBackup (Windows)
- Install and configure NetBackup IT Analytics Data Collector on MSCS environment
- Maintenance Scenarios for Message Relay Server Certificate Generation
- Installing the Data Collector Software
- Section VIII. Data Collector Installation and Configuration for Cohesity NetBackup
- Introduction
- Configure a NetBackup IT Analytics Distributed Data Collector on a NetBackup Primary Server
- Configure Data Collector on non-clustered NetBackup 10.4 and later primary server
- Configure Data Collector on non-clustered NetBackup 10.1.1, 10.2, 10.2.01, 10.3 or 10.3.0.1 primary server
- Configure a Veritas NetBackup Data Collector Policy
- Configuring file analytics in NetBackup Data Collector policy
- Installing the Data Collector software
- Configure SSL
- Centralized Data Collector for NetBackup - Prerequisites, Installation, and Configuration
- Step-1: Choose operating system and complete prerequisites
- Step-5: SSH/WMI
- Upgrading Data Collector Locally
- Clustering Data Collectors with VCS and Veritas NetBackup (RHEL)
- Clustering Data Collectors with VCS and Veritas NetBackup (Windows)
- Install and Configure NetBackup IT Analytics Data Collector on MSCS
- Data Collector Policy Migration
- Pre-Installation setup for Veritas NetBackup appliance
- Pre-installation setup for Veritas Flex Appliance
- Data Collector Troubleshooting
- Host resources: Check host connectivity using standard SSH
- Host resources: Generating host resource configuration files
- Configuring parameters for SSH
- Appendix B. Configure Appliances
- Appendix C. Firewall configuration: Default ports
- Appendix D. CRON Expressions for Policy and Report Schedules
- Appendix E. Maintenance Scenarios for Message Relay Server Certificate Generation
- Section IX. Data Collector Installation and Configuration
- Introduction
- Install and configure a Data Collector
- Step-1: Choose operating system and complete prerequisites
- Installing the Data Collector software
- Configure SSL
- Section X. Data Protection
- Configuration for Veritas Backup Exec
- Configuration for Cohesity DataProtect
- Configuration for Commvault Simpana
- Open TCP/IP access to the Commvault database
- Set up a read-only user in the CommServe server
- Configuration for EMC Avamar
- Import EMC Avamar server information
- Configuration for EMC Data Domain backup
- Configuration for Dell EMC NetWorker backup & recovery
- Importing generic backup data
- Configuration for generic backup
- CSV format specification
- Configuration for HP Data Protector
- Architecture overview (HP Data Protector)
- Configure the Data Collector server in Cell Manager (HP Data Protector)
- Configuration for IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM)
- Architecture overview (IBM Spectrum Protect -TSM)
- Import IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM) information
- Configuration for NAKIVO Backup & Replication
- Configuration for Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN)
- Configuration for Rubrik Cloud Data Management
- Configuration for Veeam Backup & Replication
- Appendix F. Load historic events
- Load Veritas NetBackup events
- Configuration for Veritas Backup Exec
- Section XI. Storage (Capacity)
- Configuration for Compute Resources
- Configuration for DELL EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS)
- Configuration for Dell EMC Unity
- Configuration for EMC data domain storage
- Configuration for EMC Isilon
- Configuration for EMC Symmetrix
- Configuration for EMC VNX Celerra
- Configuration for EMC VNX CLARiiON
- Configuration for EMC VPLEX
- Configuration for EMC XtremIO
- Configuration for FUJITSU ETERNUS Data Collector
- Configuration for Hitachi Block
- Configuring a Hitachi Device manager user
- Configuration for Hitachi Content Platform (HCP)
- Hitachi content platform system management console
- Hitachi content platform tenant management console
- Configuration for Hitachi NAS
- Configuration for Hitachi Vantara All-Flash and Hybrid Flash Storage
- Configuration of Host inventory
- Host Access Privileges, Sudo Commands, Ports, and WMI Proxy Requirements
- Configure host Discovery policies to populate the host Inventory
- Validate host connectivity
- Host Inventory search and host Inventory export
- Configure and edit host probes
- Propagate Probe Settings: Copy Probes, Paste Probes
- Configuration for HP 3PAR
- Configuration for HP EVA
- Configuration for HPE Nimble Storage
- Configuration for HPE StoreOnce
- Configuration for IBM Enterprise
- Configuration for IBM COS
- Configuration for IBM SVC
- Configuration for IBM XIV
- Configuration for Microsoft Windows server
- Configuration for NetApp-7
- Configuration for NetApp StorageGRID
- Configuration for NetApp Cluster
- Configuration for NetApp E-Series
- Configuration for NEC HYDRAstor
- Configuration for Pure Storage FlashArray
- Section XII. Compute (Virtualization and Host Collection)
- Configuration for VMware
- Configuration for IBM VIO
- Configuration for Microsoft Hyper-V
- Section XIII. Cloud
- Configuration for Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Mandatory probe user privileges
- Link AWS accounts for Collection of consolidated billing data
- Configuration for Google Cloud Platform
- Configuration for OpenStack Ceilometer
- Configuration for OpenStack Swift
- Configuration for Microsoft Azure
- Configuration for Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Section XIV. Fabric
- Configuration for Brocade switch
- Configuration for Cisco switch
- Configuration for Brocade Zone alias
- Configuration for Cisco Zone alias
- Configuration for Brocade switch
- Section XV. File Analytics
- Configuration for File Analytics
- Host Discovery and Collection File Analytics probe
- Adding a File Analytics Data Collector policy
- File Analytics Export Folder Size and Folder Depth
- Configuration for File Analytics
- Section XVI. Data Collection Validation and Troubleshooting
- Validate data collection
- Data Collector Troubleshooting
- Host resources: Check host connectivity using standard SSH
- Host resources: Generating host resource configuration files
- Configuring parameters for SSH
- Uninstalling the Data Collector
- Section XVII. System Administration
- Preparing for Updates
- Backing Up and Restoring Data
- Monitoring NetBackup IT Analytics
- Accessing NetBackup IT Analytics Reports with the REST API
- Defining NetBackup Estimated Tape Capacity
- Automating Host Group Management
- Categorize host operating systems by platform and version
- Load relationships between hosts and host group
- Automate NetBackup utilities
- Scheduling utilities to run automatically
- Attribute Management
- Importing Generic Backup Data
- Backup Job Overrides
- Managing Host Data Collection
- System Configuration in the Portal
- Custom parameters
- Performance Profile Schedule Customization
- LDAP and SSO authentication for Portal access
- Changing Oracle Database User Passwords
- Integrating with CyberArk
- Tuning NetBackup IT Analytics
- Defining Report Metrics
- Working with Log Files
- Portal and data collector log files - reduce logging
- Data collector log file naming conventions
- Portal log files
- SNMP Trap Alerting
- SSL Certificate Configuration
- Configure virtual hosts for portal and / or data collection SSL
- Keystore on the portal server
- Portal Properties: Format and Portal Customizations
- Data Retention Periods for SDK Database Objects
- Data aggregation
- Troubleshooting
- Appendix G. Kerberos based proxy user's authentication in Oracle
- Appendix H. Configure TLS-enabled Oracle database on NetBackup IT Analytics Portal and data receiver
- Appendix I. NetBackup IT Analytics for NetBackup on Kubernetes and appliances
- Section XVIII. Licensing
- License installation and guidelines
- License overview
- Verify the current license configuration
- Storage suite
- Protection suite
- Backup Manager
- Backup Manager
- Complete suite
- Managing licenses
- Configure the Data Collector policy to exclude the object
- License management from the command line
- Troubleshooting
- License installation and guidelines
- Section XIX. Inventory reports and operations
- Section XX. OpsCenter Transition
Configure a data domain server for file-level compression collection
In addition to the Names and Backup Type that were entered when an EMC Data Domain server was created, credentials are required to access and collect from the server. Also, if File-Level Compression collection from NetBackup systems is desired, MTree data must be listed.
File-Level Compression information can be instrumental in determining efficient storage strategies and identifying storage that can be reclaimed, thereby reducing archive storage expenses. This data can be used to identify clients with inefficient de-duplication ratios, highlighting where de-deduplication is not an effective approach for certain backed-up files. For example, some hosts may be running database applications that are constantly producing unique bits of data. These hosts can consume much of the expensive Data Domain storage. Data Domain collection now can identify the largest offenders, which can then be moved to less expensive storage to avoid paying premium rates for de-duplication. Use the following report templates to take advantage of this collected data: Data Domain NetBackup File Compression Summary and the Data Domain NetBackup File Compression Detail.
Enter the following details and click
.Field
Description
Data Domain Server Name*
In order for Data Domain Servers to be listed in the policy window, they must be configured with a
of .SSH User ID*
The command-line interface (CLI) via SSH is used to gather Data Domain system data. This requires the SSH Service to be enabled and a Data Domain user that has a management role of 'user'. This User ID must be the same for all addresses listed in the System Addresses entry field for the Data Domain systems.
Password*
The password associated with the User ID.
Repeat Password*
The password associated with the User ID.
File-Level Compression - MTrees Attached to Backup Systems*
This selection is relevant only when the File-Level Compression probe is selected in the EMC Data Domain Backup Policy.
Select the option to either include or exclude collection from the MTrees entered in the list. If the exclude option is selected with an empty MTree list, data from all MTrees will be collected. If the include option is selected with an empty MTree list, no file-level compression data will be collected.
Note:
Warning: Choosing to exclude file-level collection with an empty MTree list may cause collection to take several hours to complete.
Exclude from collection the MTrees entered below*
OR
Collect only from MTrees entered below
Enter one or more MTree names to be included in collection or to be excluded from collection, depending on the selected option. When compression information is collected from the MTree, an attempt is made to connect the file with a backup job that has previously been collected. A 'hint' must be specified to allow this to occur. Currently Oracle RMAN, Veritas NetBackup, and EMC Avamar are supported. For this probe to collect data, the RMAN / NetBackup / Avamar jobs must have been previously collected and all RMAN or NetBackup collection probes must have been run.
Note:
The Exclude from collection the MTrees entered below field will not collect for Avamar.
To specify an MTree to which RMAN is sending backup files to, enter:
RMAN:[MTree Name].
For NetBackup, enter:
NBU:[MTree Name].
For Avamar, enter:
AVM:[MTree Name].
Example of a comma-separated MTree list: RMAN:/data/col1/rman_su1, NBU:/data/col1/nbu_ddm1
AVM:/data/col1/avamar-1629802442
If you do not specify a hint, it is assumed that the Data Domain MTree contains files created by Veritas NetBackup.
To run File-Level compression across all Mtrees on a Data Domain system, with a 'hint' to specify that the database attempt to link files with Backup jobs, enter:
RMAN:*
or
NBU:*
or
AVM:*
depending on the Backup system using the MTree. Mixed use of wildcards is not supported.
Aggregated global and local compression rates for all NetBackup backup images are collected for all MTrees that are connected to the Active Data Domain servers via DDBOOST and where the NetBackup Data Collector is active and has successfully completed an initial data collection.
Warning:
Choosing to exclude collection with an empty MTree list may cause collection to take several hours to complete.
Click
to save the policy.On the Data Collector server, add entries to the local hosts file, both resolving to the Portal server IP address.