NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
- Introducing the NetBackup web user interface
- Monitoring and notifications
- Section I. Configuring hosts
- Section II. Configuring storage and backups
- Configuring storage
- About storage configuration
- Create a Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) storage server
- Create a Cloud storage, OpenStorage, or AdvancedDisk storage server
- Create a disk pool
- Create a storage unit
- Create a universal share
- Using image sharing from the NetBackup web UI
- Troubleshooting storage configuration
- Troubleshooting universal share configuration issues
- Create a Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) storage server for image sharing
- Managing protection plans
- Managing classic policies
- Managing backup images
- Configuring storage
- Section III. Managing credentials
- Managing credentials for workloads and systems that NetBackup accesses
- About credential management in NetBackup
- Add a credential in NetBackup
- Add a credential for an external KMS
- Add a credential for NetBackup Callhome Proxy
- Edit or delete a named credential
- Add a credential for Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP)
- Edit or delete Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) credentials in NetBackup
- Managing credentials for workloads and systems that NetBackup accesses
- Section IV. Managing security
- Security events and audit logs
- Managing security certificates
- Managing host mappings
- Managing user sessions
- Managing the security settings for the primary server
- Certificate authority for secure communication
- Disable communication with NetBackup 8.0 and earlier hosts
- Disable automatic mapping of NetBackup host names
- Configure the global data-in-transit encryption setting
- About NetBackup certificate deployment security levels
- Select a security level for NetBackup certificate deployment
- Set a passphrase for disaster recovery
- About trusted primary servers
- Access keys
- Configuring authentication options
- Section V. Managing role-based access control
- About role-based access control in NetBackup
- Configuring RBAC roles
- Configuring RBAC
- Notes for using NetBackup RBAC
- Add AD or LDAP domains
- Add a custom RBAC role
- Edit or remove a role a custom role
- View users in RBAC
- Add a user to a role (non-SAML)
- Add a user to a role (non-SAML, smart card user without AD or LDAP domain association or mapping)
- Add a user to a role (SAML)
- Remove a user from a role
- Default RBAC roles
- Administrator
- Default AHV Administrator
- Default Cloud Administrator
- Default NetBackup Command Line (CLI) Administrator
- Default Kubernetes Administrator
- Default NetBackup Kubernetes Operator Service
- Default Microsoft SQL Server Administrator
- Default Oracle Administrator
- Default RHV Administrator
- Default SaaS Administrator
- Default Resiliency Administrator
- Default Security Administrator
- Default Storage Administrator
- Default Universal Share Administrator
- Default VMware Administrator
- Configuring RBAC
- RBAC permissions
- About role permissions
- Global > BMR
- Global > NetBackup Web Management Console Administration
- Global > NetBackup management
- Access hosts
- Agentless hosts
- Anomalies
- CLI sessions
- Data classifications
- Email notifications
- Event logs
- NetBackup hosts
- Image sharing
- NetBackup backup images
- Jobs
- Licensing
- Media server
- Remote primary server certificate authority
- Resiliency
- Resource limits
- Retention levels
- Servers > Trusted primary servers
- Cloud providers
- CloudPoint servers
- WebSocket servers
- Global > Protection
- Global > Security
- Access control
- Security events
- Certificate management
- Disaster recovery passphrase
- Identity provider and SAML certificate configuration
- Key Management Services (KMS)
- Passphrase constraints
- Service principal configuration
- Global security settings
- Trust versions
- API keys
- User certificates
- User sessions and authentication
- Global > Storage
- Assets
- Protection plans
- Credentials
- Manage access
- Section VI. Managing detection and reporting
- Managing deployment
- Managing Resiliency Platforms
- NetBackup SaaS Protection
- NetBackup Flex Scale
- Managing Bare Metal Restore (BMR)
- Troubleshooting the NetBackup Web UI
About security management and certificates in NetBackup
NetBackup uses security certificates to authenticate the NetBackup hosts. These certificates must conform to the X.509 public key infrastructure (PKI) standard. With NetBackup 8.1, 8.1.1, and 8.1.2, NetBackup certificates are used for secure communication. In NetBackup 8.2 and later you can use NetBackup certificates or external certificates.
NetBackup certificates are issued to hosts by default and the NetBackup primary server acts as the CA and manages the Certificate Revocation List (CRL). The determines how certificates are deployed to NetBackup hosts and how often the CRL is updated on each host. If a host needs a new certificate (the original certificate is expired or revoked), you can use an NetBackup authorization token to reissue the certificate.
External certificates are those that a trusted external CA signed. When you configure NetBackup to use external certificates, the primary server, media servers, and clients in the NetBackup domain use the external certificates for secure communication. Additionally, the NetBackup web server uses these certificates for communication between the NetBackup web UI and the NetBackup hosts. Deployment of external certificates, updating or replacing external certificates, and CRL management for the external CA are managed outside of NetBackup.
For more information on external certificates, see the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide.
NetBackup 8.1 and later hosts can communicate with each other only in a secure mode. Depending on the NetBackup version, these hosts must have a certificate that the NetBackup CA issued or that another trusted CA issued. A NetBackup certificate that is used for secure communications over a control channel is also referred to as host ID-based certificate.
Any security certificates that NetBackup generated for 8.0 hosts are referred to as host name-based certificates. For more details on these certificates, refer to the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide.