NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
- Section I. About NetBackup- 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, disk pools, disk array hosts, and host properties in the NetBackup web UI
 
- Administering NetBackup licenses
 
- Introducing NetBackup
- Registering the data collector
- Section II. 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
- View the status of a redirected restore
- Troubleshooting the viewing and managing of jobs
 
 
- Device monitor
- Notifications
 
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- Section III. 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
- Configure 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 IV. Configuring storage- Overview of storage options
- Configuring storage units
- Configuring disk storage- About configuring BasicDisk storage
- About configuring disk pool storage
- Create a disk pool
- Editing a disk pool
- Create a Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP, MSDP Cloud) storage server
- Editing a storage server
- Integrating MSDP Cloud and CMS
- Create a Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) storage server for image sharing
- Create an AdvancedDisk, OpenStorage (OST), or Cloud Connector storage server
- Using image sharing from the NetBackup web UI
 
- Managing media servers
- Managing tape drives- Change a drive comment
- About downed drives
- Change a drive operating mode
- Change a tape drive path
- Change the operating mode for a drive path
- Change tape drive properties
- Change a tape drive to a shared drive
- Clean a tape drive
- Delete a drive
- Reset a drive
- Reset the mount time of a drive
- Set the drive cleaning frequency
- View drive details
 
- Staging backups
- Troubleshooting storage configuration
 
- Section V. Configuring backups- Overview of backups in the NetBackup web UI
- Managing protection plans
- Managing classic policies
- Protecting the NetBackup catalog- About the NetBackup catalog
- Catalog backups- The catalog backup process
- Prerequisites for backing up the NetBackup catalog
- Configuring catalog backups
- Backing up NetBackup catalogs manually
- Concurrently running catalog backups with other backups
- Catalog policy schedule considerations
- How catalog incrementals and standard backups interact on UNIX
- Determining whether or not a catalog backup succeeded
- Strategies that ensure successful NetBackup catalog backups
 
- Disaster recovery emails and the disaster recovery files
- Disaster recovery packages
- About disaster recovery settings
- Setting the passphrase to encrypt disaster recovery packages
- Recovering the catalog
 
- Managing backup images
- Pausing data protection activity
 
- Section VI. Managing security- Security events and audit logs
- Managing security certificates
- Managing host mappings
- Configuring multi-person authorization- About multi-person authorization
- Workflow to configure multi-person authorization for NetBackup operations
- RBAC roles and permissions for multi-person authorization
- Multi-person authorization process with respect to roles
- NetBackup operations that need multi-person authorization
- Configure multi-person authorization
- View multi-person authorization tickets
- Manage multi-person authorization tickets
- Add exempted users
- Schedule expiration and purging of multi-person authorization tickets
- Disable multi-person authorization
 
- Managing user sessions
- Configuring multi-factor authentication- About multi-factor authentication
- Configure multi-factor authentication for your user account
- Disable multi-factor authentication for your user account
- Enforce multi-factor authentication for all users
- Configure multi-factor authentication for your user account when it is enforced in the domain
- Reset multi-factor authentication for a user
 
- Managing the global 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
- Disabling access to NetBackup interfaces for OS Administrators
 
- Section VII. Detection and reporting
- Section VIII. NetBackup workloads and NetBackup Flex Scale
- Section IX. Disaster recovery and troubleshooting
- Section X. Other topics- Additional NetBackup catalog information
- About the NetBackup database
 
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.