NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
- Introducing NetBackup
- About NetBackup
- NetBackup documentation
- NetBackup web UI features
- NetBackup administration interfaces
- Terminology
- First-time sign in to the NetBackup web UI
- Sign in to the NetBackup web UI
- Sign out of the NetBackup web UI
- Documentation for Catalog Recovery Wizard, disk array hosts, disk pools, and Host Properties in the NetBackup web UI
- Section I. Monitoring and notifications
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- The NetBackup dashboard
- Activity monitor
- Job monitoring
- Workloads that require a custom RBAC role for specific job permissions
- View a job
- View the jobs in the List view
- View the jobs in the Hierarchy view
- Jobs: cancel, suspend, restart, resume, delete
- Search for or filter jobs in the jobs list
- Create a jobs filter
- Edit, copy, or delete a jobs filter
- Import or export job filters
- Troubleshooting the viewing of jobs
- Notifications
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- Section II. Configuring hosts
- Managing host properties
- Managing credentials for workloads and systems that NetBackup accesses
- Overview of 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 CyberArk
- Configuring external credentials
- Add a configuration for an external CMS server
- Edit or delete the configuration for an external CMS server
- Add a credential for Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP)
- Edit or delete Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) credentials in NetBackup
- Troubleshooting the external CMS server issue
- Managing deployment
- Section III. Configuring storage
- Section IV. Configuring backups
- Section V. 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
- About TLS session resumption
- Set a passphrase for disaster recovery
- About trusted primary servers
- Using access keys, API keys, and access codes
- Configuring authentication options
- Managing role-based access control
- RBAC features
- Authorized users
- Configuring RBAC
- Notes for using NetBackup RBAC
- Add AD or LDAP domains
- View users in RBAC
- Add a user to a role (non-SAML)
- Add a smart card user to a role (non-SAML, without AD/LDAP)
- Add a user to a role (SAML)
- Remove a user from a role
- Disable web UI access for operating system (OS) administrators
- Disable command-line (CLI) access for operating system (OS) administrators
- Default RBAC roles
- Add a custom RBAC role
- Role permissions
- Manage access permission
- View access definitions
- Section VI. Detection and reporting
- Section VII. NetBackup workloads and NetBackup Flex Scale
- Section VIII. Disaster recovery and troubleshooting
Add a custom role for a Bare Metal Restore (BMR) administrator
To add a custom RBAC role
- On the left, select Security > RBAC and click Add.
- Select Custom role to manually configure all the permissions for the role.
- Provide a Role name and a description.
For example, you may want to indicate that the role is for any users that are BMR administrators.
- On the Global tab, expand the BMR section and select all the permissions for BMR.
Boot servers
View, Delete
Clients
View, Create, Update, Delete, Pre restore
VM conversion
View, Delete, VM conversion
- Expand the NetBackup management section.
Locate the NetBackup hosts group.
Select the following permissions:
NetBackup hosts
View, Update
Locate the NetBackup backup images group.
Select the following permissions:
NetBackup backup images
Image Requests > View
NetBackup backup images
View
- For ESXi servers, additional permissions are needed for Host properties.
On the Global tab, expand the NetBackup management section.
Select the following permissions:
Access hosts
View, Create, Update, Delete
- On the Assets tab, select the following permissions.
VMware assets
View, Update, View restore targets
- Click Assign.
- Under Workloads, click Assign.
Select the VMware assets that you want the role to have access to.
To give the role access to all VMware assets and future assets that you add, select Apply selected permissions to all existing and future VMware assets.
To select individual assets, deselect Apply selected permissions to all existing and future VMware assets and click Add.
For example, you can select one or more: datastores, datastore clusters, ESXi servers, ESXi clusters, resource pools, vApps.
- When you have added all the assets, click Assign.
- On the Users card, click Assign. Then add each user that you want to have access to this custom role.
- When you are done configuring the role, click Save.