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NetBackup IT Analytics Data Collector Installation Guide for Capacity Manager

Last Published: 2023-03-01

Product(s): NetBackup IT Analytics (11.0)

Overview
1. Purpose of this document
2. Architecture overview
3. Determining the required policy
4. Planning worksheets
5. Storage array details
6. Host resources details
Pre-Installation setup for Compute Resources
1. Overview
2. Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors - Compute Resources
3. Installation overview
4. Add a Compute Resources policy
Pre-Installation setup for Dell Compellent
1. Overview
2. Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (Dell compellent)
3. Upgrade troubleshooting: Microsoft SQL Server and Java 11
4. Installation overview (Dell compellent)
5. Adding a Dell Compellent Data Collector policy
Pre-Installation setup for DELL EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS)
1. Pre-Installation setup for DELL EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS)
2. Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors - DELL EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS)
3. Installation overview - DELL EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS)
4. Add a DELL EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) Data Collector policy
Pre-Installation setup for Dell EMC Unity
1. Pre-Installation setup for Dell EMC Unity
2. Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (Dell EMC Unity)
3. Installation overview (Dell EMC Unity)
4. Add a Dell EMC Unity Data Collector policy
Pre-Installation setup for EMC data domain storage
1. Architecture overview (EMC data domain storage)
2. Prerequisites for adding data Collectors (EMC data domain storage)
3. Installation overview (EMC data domain storage)
4. Add EMC data domain servers
5. Adding an EMC data domain storage Data Collector policy
Pre-Installation setup for EMC Isilon
1. Pre-Installation setup for EMC Isilon
2. Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (EMC Isilon)
3. Configure the Isilon SNMP service
4. Configure Isilon sudo access
  1. Modify the Sudo configuration
5. Installation overview (EMC Isilon)
6. Adding an EMC Isilon Data Collector policy
Pre-Installation setup EMC Symmetrix
1. Pre-Installation setup EMC Symmetrix
2. Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (EMC Symmetrix)
3. Installation overview (EMC Symmetrix)
4. Adding an EMC Symmetrix Data Collector policy
  1. If the EMC solutions enabler is on a remote server (Recommended)
Pre-Installation setup for EMC VNX Celerra
1. Pre-Installation setup for EMC VNX Celerra
2. Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (EMC VNX Celerra)
3. Setup for EMC VNX Celerra arrays
4. Configure a Read-Only user with an Operator role
5. Start the XML API server
6. Installation overview (EMC VNX Celerra)
7. Adding an EMC VNX Celerra Data Collector policy
Pre-Installation setup for EMC VNX
1. Pre-Installation setup for EMC VNX
2. Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (EMC VNX)
3. Installation overview (EMC VNX)
4. Adding an EMC VNX Data Collector policy
Pre-Installation setup for EMC VPLEX
1. Pre-Installation setup for EMC VPLEX
2. Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (EMC VPLEX)
3. Installation overview (EMC VPLEX)
4. Adding a EMC VPLEX Data Collector policy
Pre-Installation setup for EMC XtremIO
1. Pre-Installation setup for EMC XtremIO
2. Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (EMC XtremIO)
3. Installation overview (EMC XtremIO)
4. Add an EMC XtremIO Data Collector policy
Pre-installation setup for FUJITSU ETERNUS Data Collector
1. About data collector
2. Pre-installation setup
3. Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors
4. Installation overview
5. Adding a FUJITSU ETERNUS Data Collector policy
Pre-Installation setup for Hitachi Block
1. Pre-Installation setup for Hitachi Block
2. Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (Hitachi Block)
3. Installation overview (Hitachi Block Storage)
4. Adding a Hitachi Block Storage Data Collector policy
5. Configuring a Hitachi Device manager user
  1. Validate the User ID access
6. Configuring a Collector for Hitachi NAS block storage
7. Adding an HP command view advanced Data Collector policy
Pre-Installation setup for Hitachi Content Platform (HCP)
1. Pre-Installation setup for Hitachi Content Platform (HCP)
2. Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (Hitachi Content Platform)
3. Installation overview (Hitachi Content Platform)
4. Add a Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) Data Collector policy
5. Setting up permissions for an HCP local user or active directory user
6. Hitachi content platform system management console
  1. Local users
  2. Local users and active directory users
7. Hitachi content platform tenant management console
Pre-Installation Setup for Hitachi NAS
1. Pre-Installation setup Hitachi NAS
2. Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (Hitachi NAS - HNAS)
3. Installation overview (Hitachi NAS - HNAS)
4. Adding a Hitachi NAS (HNAS) Data Collector policy
5. HNAS configuration requirements
  1. Configuring SSC access
6. Adding the collector
Pre-Installation Setup for Hitachi Vantara All-Flash and Hybrid Flash Storage
1. Pre-Installation setup for Hitachi Vantara All-Flash and Hybrid Flash Storage
2. Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (Hitachi Vantara All-Flash and Hybrid Flash Storage)
3. Installation overview
4. Adding a Hitachi Vantara All-Flash and Hybrid Flash Storage policy
Host inventory pre-installation setup
1. Host Access Privileges, Sudo Commands, Ports, and WMI Proxy Requirements
  1. Access Requirements by OS
2. Host Inventory pre-installation setup
3. Plan host Data Collection
4. WMI Proxy requirements for Windows host Data Collection
5. Host access requirements
6. Verify command paths
7. Host Inventory configuration steps
8. Host Inventory setup overview
9. Host Inventory maintenance overview
10. Before discovering hosts
11. Configure / Search the host Inventory
12. Manage credentials
13. Manage WMI proxy
14. Manage paths
15. Manage access control
16. Host Inventory management
17. Configure host Discovery policies to populate the host Inventory
  1. Discovery policy considerations
  2. Configure a Discovery policy
  3. Collecting from Clustered SQL server and Oracle applications
18. Execute and monitor host Discovery
19. Validate host connectivity
  1. Validate hosts
  2. Validation history
20. Show errors
21. Filter the host Inventory - hide / un-hide, remove
22. Host Inventory search and host Inventory export
  1. Basic search
  2. Pre-Defined search
  3. Advanced search parameters
23. Export the host Inventory
24. Configure and edit host probes
  1. Host Inventory File Analytics probe
  2. File Analytics Probe configurations by operating system
  3. Both Windows and Linux servers
  4. Best practices for Host Inventory File Analytics probes
25. Propagate Probe Settings: Copy Probes, Paste Probes
  1. Probe settings
Pre-Installation setup for HP 3PAR
1. Pre-Installation setup for HP 3PAR
2. Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (HP 3PAR)
3. Installation Overview (HP 3PAR)
4. Adding an HP 3PAR Data Collector Policy
5. Adding an HP command view advanced Data Collector policy
Pre-Installation setup for HP EVA
1. Pre-Installation setup for HP EVA
2. Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (HP EVA)
3. Installation overview (HP EVA)
4. Adding an HP EVA Data Collector policy
Pre-Installation setup for HPE Nimble Storage
1. Pre-Installation setup for HPE Nimble Storage
2. Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (HPE Nimble Storage)
3. Installation overview (HPE Nimble Storage)
4. Adding an HPE Nimble Storage Data Collector policy
Pre-Installation setup for Huawei OceanStor
1. Pre-Installation setup for Huawei OceanStor
2. Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (Huawei OceanStor)
3. Installation overview
4. Add a Huawei OceanStor Data Collector policy
Pre-Installation setup for IBM Enterprise
1. Pre-Installation setup for IBM Enterprise
2. Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (IBM Enterprise)
3. Installation overview (IBM Enterprise)
4. Adding an IBM Enterprise Data Collector policy
Pre-Installation setup for IBM COS
1. Introduction
2. Prerequisites for adding data collectors (IBM COS)
3. Installation overview (IBM COS)
4. Add IBM COS Data Collector policy
Pre-Installation setup for IBM SVC
1. Pre-Installation setup for IBM SVC
2. Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (IBM SVC)
3. Installation overview (IBM SVC)
4. Adding an IBM SVC Data Collector policy
Pre-Installation setup for IBM XIV
1. Pre-Installation Setup for IBM XIV
2. Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (IBM XIV)
3. Installation overview (IBM XIV)
4. Adding an IBM XIV Data Collector policy
Pre-Installation setup for Infinidat InfiniBox
1. Pre-Installation setup for Infinidat InfiniBox
2. Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (Infinidat InfiniBox)
3. Installation overview
4. Add an Infinidat InfiniBox Data Collector policy
Pre-Installation setup for Infinidat InfiniGuard
1. Introduction
2. Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (Infinidat InfiniGuard)
3. Installation overview (Infinidat InfiniGuard)
4. Adding a InfiniGuard Data Collector policy
Pre-Installation setup for Microsoft Windows server
1. Pre-Installation setup for Microsoft Windows server
2. Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (Microsoft Windows server)
3. Collecting from applications and services logs
4. Installation overview (Microsoft Windows Server)
5. Add a Microsoft Windows server Data Collector policy
Pre-Installation setup for NetApp-7
1. Pre-Installation setup for NetApp-7
2. Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (NetApp-7)
3. Data Collector configurations specific to NetApp-7
  1. If HTTP access is disabled on the vFiler
4. Installation overview (NetApp-7)
5. Adding a NetApp Data Collector policy
6. Testing the collection
7. Creating a NetApp user with API privileges
Pre-Installation setup for NetApp StorageGRID
1. NetApp StorageGRID overview
2. Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (NetApp StorageGRID)
3. Data Collector configuration specific to NetApp StorageGRID
4. Installing NetApp StorageGRID
5. Adding a NetApp StorageGRID Data Collector policy
6. Testing the collection
Pre-Installation setup for NetApp Cluster
1. Pre-Installation setup for NetApp Cluster
2. Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (NetApp Cluster)
3. Installation overview (NetApp Cluster-Mode)
4. Adding a NetApp Cluster-Mode Data Collector policy
5. Testing the collection
6. Creating a NetApp Cluster-Mode Read-Only user
Pre-Installation setup for NetApp E-Series
1. Pre-Installation setup for NetApp E-Series
2. Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (NetApp E-Series)
3. Installation overview (NetApp E-Series)
4. Adding a NetApp E-Series Data Collector policy
Pre-Installation setup for Pure Storage FlashArray
1. Pre-Installation setup for pure Storage FlashArray
2. Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (pure Storage FlashArray)
3. Installation overview (Pure storage FlashArray)
4. Add a pure storage FlashArray Data Collector policy
Pre-Installation setup for Veritas NetBackup appliance
1. Overview
2. Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (Veritas NetBackup appliance)
3. Installation Overview (Veritas NetBackup Appliance)
4. Adding a Veritas NetBackup Appliance Data Collector policy
Installing the Data Collector software
1. Introduction
2. Installing the WMI Proxy service (Windows host resources only)
3. Testing WMI connectivity
4. Considerations to install Data Collector on non-English systems
5. Install Data Collector Software on Windows
6. Install Data Collector software on Linux
7. Install Data Collector in containerized environment
Validating Data Collection
1. Validation methods
2. Data Collectors: Vendor-Specific validation methods
3. Working with on-demand Data Collection
  1. View real-time logging during an on-demand collection
  2. Generating debug level logs during an on-demand collection
4. Using the CLI check install utility
5. List Data Collector configurations
Uninstalling the Data Collector
1. Uninstall the Data Collector on Linux
2. Uninstall the Data Collector on Windows
Manually starting the Data Collector
1. Introduction
Appendix A. Firewall configuration: Default ports
1. Firewall configuration: Default ports

Firewall configuration: Default ports

The following table describes the standard ports used by the Portal servers, the Data Collector servers, and any embedded third-party software products as part of a standard "out-of-the-box" installation.

Table: Components: Default Ports

Component	Default Ports
Apache Web Server	http 80 https 443
Jetty Server on Data Collector Server	443
Kafka	9092
Linux Hosts	SSH 22
Managed Applications	Oracle ASM 1521 MS Exchange 389 MS SQL 1433 File Analytics CIFS 137, 139
Oracle Oracle TNS listener port	1521
Tomcat - Data Receiver Apache connector port and shutdown port for Data Receiver instance of tomcat	8011, 8017
Tomcat - Portal Apache connector port and shutdown port for Portal instance of tomcat	8009, 8015
Windows Hosts	TCP/IP 1248 WMI 135 DCOM TCP/UDP > 1023 SMB TCP 445
ZooKeeper	2181

Table: Storage Vendors: Default Ports

Storage Vendor	Default Ports and Notes
Dell Compellent	1433 SMI-S http (5988) SMI-S https (5989)
Dell EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS)	REST API 4443
Dell EMC Unity	REST API version 4.3.0 on 443 or 8443
EMC Data Domain Storage	SSH 22
EMC Isilon	SSH 22
EMC Symmetrix	SymCLI over Fibre Channel 2707
EMC VNX	NaviCLI 443, 2163, 6389, 6390, 6391, 6392
EMC VNX (Celerra)	XML API 443, 2163, 6389, 6390, 6391, 6392
EMC VPLEX	https TCP 443
EMC XtremIO	REST API https 443
HP 3PAR	22 for CLI
HP EVA	2372
HPE Nimble Storage	5392, REST API Reference Version 5.0.1.0
Hitachi Block Storage	TCP 2001 For the HIAA probe: 22015 is used for HTTP and 22016 is used for HTTPS.
Hitachi Content Platform (HCP)	SNMP 161 REST API https 9090
Hitachi NAS (HNAS)	SSC 206
Hitachi Vantara All-Flash and Hybrid Flash Storage	Hitachi Ops Center Configuration Manager REST API: 23450 for HTTP and 23451 for HTTPS. HIAA : 22015 for HTTP, and 22016 for HTTPS
Huawei OceanStor Enterprise Storage	8080
IBM Enterprise	TCP 1751, 1750, 1718 DSCLI
IBM SVC	SSPC w/CIMOM 5988, 5989
IBM XIV	XCLI TCP 7778
INFINIDAT InfiniBox	REST API TCP 80, 443
Microsoft Windows Server	2012 R2, 2016 WMI 135 DCOM TCP/UDP > 1023
NetApp E-Series	SMCLI 2436
NetApp ONTAP 7-Mode and Cluster-Mode	ONTAP API 80/443
Pure Storage FlashArray	REST API https 443
Veritas NetBackup Appliance	1556

Table: Data protection: Default ports

Data Protection Vendor	Default Ports and Notes
Cohesity DataProtect	REST API on Port 80 or 443
Commvault Simpana	1433, 135 (skipped files) 445 (CIFS over TCP) DCOM >1023
Dell EMC Networker Backup & Recovery	Port used for Dell EMC NetWorker REST API connection. Default: 9090.
EMC Avamar	5555 SSH 22
EMC Data Domain Backup	SSH 22
EMC NetWorker	NSRADMIN TCP 7937-7940 WMI Proxy range of ports SSH 22 (Linux)
HP Data Protector	5555 WMI ports SSH 22 (Linux)
IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM)	1500
NAKIVO Backup & Replication	Director Web UI port (Default: 4443)
Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN)	1521
Rubrik Cloud Data Management	REST API 443
Veeam Backup & Replication	9392
Veritas Backup Exec	1433
Veritas NetBackup	1556, 13724 WMI ports SSH 22 (Linux)

Table: Network & Fabrics: Default Ports

Network & Fabrics Vendor	Default Ports and Notes
Brocade Switch	SMI-S 5988/5989
Cisco Switch	SMI-S 5988/5989

Table: Virtualization Vendors: Default Ports

Virtualization Vendor	Default Ports and Notes
IBM VIO	SSH 22
Microsoft Hyper-V	WMI 135 DCOM TCP/UDP > 1023
VMware ESX or ESXi,vCenter,vSphere	vSphere VI SDK https TCP 443

Virtualization Vendor

Default Ports and Notes

IBM VIO

SSH 22

Microsoft Hyper-V

WMI 135

DCOM TCP/UDP > 1023

VMware ESX or ESXi,vCenter,vSphere

vSphere VI SDK

https TCP 443

Table: Replication Vendors: Default Ports

Replication Vendor	Default Ports and Notes
NetApp ONTAP 7-Mode	ONTAP API 80/443

Replication Vendor

Default Ports and Notes

NetApp ONTAP 7-Mode

ONTAP API

80/443

Table: Cloud Vendors: Default Ports

Cloud Vendor	Default Ports and Notes
Amazon Web Services	https 443
Microsoft Azure	https 443
OpenStack Ceilometer	8774, 8777 Keystone Admin 3537 Keystone Public 5000
OpenStack Swift	Keystone Admin 35357 Keystone Public 5000 SSH 22
Google Cloud Platform	https 443