NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
- Section I. About NetBackup
- 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
- Expand or collapse rows in the Jobs tab
- View the jobs in the List view
- View the jobs in the Hierarchy view
- Jobs: cancel, suspend, restart, resume, delete
- View the logs for a job
- 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
- Collect logs for Cohesity Technical Support
- View the status of a redirected restore
- Troubleshooting the viewing and managing of jobs
- Device monitor
- Notifications
- Registering the data collector
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- Section III. Configuring hosts
- Managing host properties
- Overview of host properties
- View or edit the host properties of a server or client
- Host information and settings in Host properties
- Reset a host's attributes
- Active Directory properties
- Backup pool host properties
- Busy file settings properties
- Clean up properties
- Client name properties
- Client attributes properties
- Client settings properties for UNIX clients
- Client settings properties for Windows clients
- Cloud Storage properties
- Credential access properties
- Data Classification properties
- Default job priorities properties
- Distributed application restore mapping properties
- Encryption properties
- Enterprise Vault properties
- Enterprise Vault hosts properties
- Exchange properties
- Exclude list properties
- Fibre transport properties
- Firewall properties
- General server properties
- Global attributes properties
- Logging properties
- Lotus Notes properties
- Media properties
- Network properties
- Network settings properties
- Nutanix AHV access hosts
- Port ranges properties
- Preferred network properties
- Add or edit a Preferred network setting
- How NetBackup uses the directives to determine which network to use
- Configurations to use IPv6 networks
- Configurations to use IPv4 networks
- Order of directive processing in the Preferred network properties
- bptestnetconn utility to display Preferred network information
- Configuration to prohibit using a specified address
- Configuration to prefer a specified address
- Configuration that restricts NetBackup to one set of addresses
- Configuration that limits the addresses, but allows any interfaces
- Properties setting in host properties
- RHV access hosts properties
- Resilient network properties
- Resource limit properties
- Restore failover properties
- Retention periods properties
- Scalable Storage properties
- Servers properties
- SharePoint properties
- SLP settings properties
- Throttle bandwidth properties
- Timeouts properties
- Universal settings properties
- UNIX client properties
- UNIX Server properties
- User account settings properties
- VMware access hosts properties
- Windows client properties
- Configuration options not found in the host properties
- About using commands to change the configuration options on UNIX or Linux clients and servers
- Managing credentials for workloads and systems that NetBackup accesses
- Overview of credential management in NetBackup
- Adding credentials in NetBackup
- Add a credential for NetBackup Callhome Proxy
- Add a credential for an external KMS
- Add a credential for Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP)
- Add a configuration for an external CMS server
- Edit or delete a named credential
- Edit or delete Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) credentials in NetBackup
- Managing deployment
- Managing host properties
- Section IV. Configuring storage
- Overview of storage options
- Configuring disk storage
- Create a Media Server Deduplication Pool 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
- Create an MSDP server for MSDP volume group (MVG)
- Create the MVG volume
- Edit a storage server
- About configuring disk pool storage
- Share images from an on-premises location to the cloud
- Overview of universal shares
- About the MSDP object store
- Managing media servers
- Configuring storage units
- Configuring robots and tape drives
- NetBackup robot types
- About the device mapping files
- Downloading the device mapping files
- Prerequisites for configuring robots and drives
- About configuring robots and tapes drives in NetBackup
- Configure drives and robots by using the wizard
- Configure drive name rules
- Update the device configuration by using the wizard
- Robot properties and configuration options
- Robot control (robot configuration options)
- Managing robots
- Correlating tape drives and SCSI addresses on Windows hosts
- Correlating tape drives and device files on UNIX hosts
- Managing tape drives
- Verifying the device configuration
- About automatic path correction
- Enabling automatic path correction
- Replacing a device
- Updating device firmware
- About the NetBackup Device Manager
- About external access to NetBackup controlled devices on UNIX
- Configuring tape media
- About NetBackup tape volumes
- About NetBackup volume pools
- About NetBackup volume groups
- NetBackup media types
- About adding volumes
- Managing volumes
- Edit a volume
- About moving volumes
- Move volumes
- About recycling a volume
- About assigning and deassigning volumes
- Delete a volume
- Changing the media owner of a volume
- Changing the volume group assignment
- About rules for moving volumes between groups
- Rescan and update barcodes
- About barcode rules
- About injecting and ejecting volumes
- Label a volume
- Erase a volume
- Freeze or unfreeze a volume
- Suspend or unsuspend volumes
- Managing volume pools
- Managing volume groups
- Inventorying robots
- About robot inventory
- When to inventory a robot
- About showing a robot's contents
- Show the media in a robot
- About comparing a robot's contents with the volume configuration
- Comparing media in a robot with the volume configuration
- About previewing volume configuration changes
- Previewing volume configuration changes for a robot
- About updating the NetBackup volume configuration
- Update the NetBackup volume configuration with a robot's contents
- Robot inventory options
- Advanced options for robot inventory settings
- Configure media ID generation rules
- Barcode rules settings
- Media ID generation options
- Configure media settings
- About media type mapping rules
- Configure media type mappings
- Staging backups
- Troubleshooting storage configuration
- Section V. Configuring backups
- Overview of backups in the NetBackup web UI
- Managing policies
- Add a policy
- About the Epic-Large-File policy type
- Example policy - Exchange Server DAG backup
- Example policy - Sharded MongoDB cluster
- Example policy - Epic-Large-File
- Edit, copy, or delete a policy
- Deactivate or activate a policy
- View automanaged policies and SLPs
- About automanaged policies or storage lifecycle policies
- Perform manual backups
- Managing protection plans
- Create a protection plan
- Customizing protection plans
- Edit or delete a protection plan
- Subscribe an asset or an asset group to a protection plan
- Unsubscribe an asset from a protection plan
- View protection plan overrides
- Copy a protection plan policy (automanaged policy) to a classic policy
- About Backup now
- 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
- Set 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
- Minimizing security configuration risk
- 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 multifactor authentication
- About multifactor authentication
- Configure multifactor authentication for your user account
- Disable multifactor authentication for your user account
- Enforce multifactor authentication for all users
- Configure multifactor authentication for your user account when it is enforced in the domain
- Reset multifactor authentication for a user
- Managing the global security settings for the primary server
- View the 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
- Validate the disaster recovery package passphrase
- About trusted primary servers
- Configure the audit retention period
- Using access keys, API keys, and access codes
- Configuring authentication options
- Managing role-based access control (RBAC)
- Disabling access to NetBackup interfaces for OS Administrators
- Section VII. Detection and reporting
- Detecting anomalies
- About backup anomaly detection
- Configure backup anomaly detection settings
- View backup anomalies
- Disable backup anomaly detection and computation of entropy and file attributes for a client
- About system anomaly detection
- Configure system anomaly detection settings
- Configure rules-based anomaly detection
- Configure risk engine-based anomaly detection
- View system anomalies
- Malware scanning
- Usage reporting and capacity licensing
- Reports
- Detecting anomalies
- Section VIII. NetBackup workloads and NetBackup Flex Scale
- Section IX. Administering NetBackup
- Management topics
- Managing client backups and restores
- About server-directed restores
- About client-redirected restores
- About restoring the files that have Access Control Lists (ACLs)
- About setting the original atime for files during restores on UNIX
- Restoring the System State
- About the backup and restore of compressed files on VxFS file systems
- About backups and restores on ReFS
- Section X. Disaster recovery and troubleshooting
- Section XI. Other topics
- Additional NetBackup catalog information
- Parts of the NetBackup catalog
- Archiving the catalog and restoring from the catalog archive
- Estimating catalog space requirements
- About the file hash search in NetBackup
- Configuring the file hash server
- Enabling the file hash server on the NetBackup primary server
- Calculating the file hash
- Searching the files using the file hash
- Identifying the backups that have the file hash enabled
- Removing the file hash from the backup
- Migrating the file hash data from one server to another
- Configuring the backup of file hash data on the file hash server
- Restoring the file hash data to the file hash server
- About the NetBackup database
- About the NetBackup database installation
- Post-installation tasks
- Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility on Windows
- Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility on UNIX
- Additional NetBackup catalog information
First-time sign in to the NetBackup web UI
After the installation of NetBackup, an administrator must sign into the NetBackup web UI from a web browser and create RBAC roles for users. A role gives a user permissions and access to the NetBackup environment through the web UI, based on the user's role in your organization. Some users have access to the web UI by default.
See Authorized users.
If you do not have access to root or to administrator credentials you can use the bpnbaz -AddRBACPrincipal command to add an administrator user.
To sign in to a NetBackup primary server using the NetBackup web UI
- Open a web browser and go to the following URL.
https://primaryserver/webui/login
The primaryserver is the host name or IP address of the NetBackup primary server that you want to sign in to.
If you are not able to access the web UI, refer to Support and additional configuration.
- Enter the administrator credentials and click Sign in.
For this type of user
Use this format
Example
Local user
username
jane_doe
Windows user
DOMAIN\username
WINDOWS\jane_doe
UNIX user
username@domain
john_doe@unix
- On the left, select Security > RBAC.
- You can give users access to the NetBackup web UI in one of the following ways:
Create roles for all users that require access to NetBackup.
Delegate the task of creating roles to another user.
Create a role that has permissions to add RBAC roles. This user can then create roles for all users that require access to the NetBackup web UI.
See Configuring RBAC.
Root or administrator access is no longer needed for the web UI once you have delegated one or more users with permissions to create RBAC roles.
Refer to the following information for help with accessing the web UI.
Ensure that you are an authorized user.
See Authorized users.
For details on supported browsers for the web UI, see the NetBackup Software Compatibility List.
If port 443 is blocked or in use, you can configure and use a custom port.
If you want to use an external certificate with the web browser, see the following topic.
See Configure an external certificate for the NetBackup web server.
See other tips for accessing the web UI.