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
About user privileges
Privileges can be set for both user groups and individual users.
Note:
The user privileges are governed by the product license associated with the domain to which the user is assigned.
Privileges are organized by areas in the portal:
. Various categories of privileges enable you to tailor user access capabilities:Table: Table 1 User Privileges
Privilege category | Privilege description | |
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Enables or restricts the ability to access to the tab.Note: Reports and templates available through the tab are individually controlled by specific privileges. | ||
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. Note: User access to LUNs can be configured separately irrespective of access granted to the Arrays. | |
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. Note: User access to Ports can be configured separately irrespective of access granted to the Switches. | |
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. | |
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. Note: These privileges are specific to the tab. | |
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 . | |
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 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. Note: Portal upgrades will automatically enable privileges for newly added reports and the display of the view along with all objects for all Administrators. Refer to the release notes for the list of reports and features introduced in a specific product release. | ||
Enable Access to Cloud Reports | Enables access to new and updated reports delivered through the Cloud. Note: The Cloud section is only displayed on the tab when this privilege is enabled. | |
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 | Select to provide the ability to:
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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. |
Portal upgrades automatically enable privileges for newly added reports and the display of the
view including all objects, for all Administrators. Refer to the NetBackup IT AnalyticsRelease Notes for the list of reports and features introduced in a specific product release.