NetBackup and Veritas Appliances Hardening Guide
- Top recommendations to improve your NetBackup and Veritas appliances security posture
- Steps to protect Flex Appliance
- Managing single sign-on (SSO)
- About lockdown mode
- Configuring an isolated recovery environment on a WORM storage server
- Steps to protect NetBackup Appliance
- About single sign-on (SSO) authentication and authorization
- About authentication using smart cards and digital certificates
- About data encryption
- About forwarding logs to an external server
- Steps to protect NetBackup
- Configure NetBackup for single sign-on (SSO)
- Configure user authentication with smart cards or digital certificates
- Access codes
- Workflow to configure immutable and indelible data
- Add a configuration for an external CMS server
- Configuring an isolated recovery environment on a NetBackup BYO media server
- About FIPS support in NetBackup
- Workflow for external KMS configuration
- Workflow to configure data-in-transit encryption
- Workflow to use external certificates for NetBackup host communication
- About certificate revocation lists for external CA
- Configuring an external certificate for a clustered primary server
- Configuring a NetBackup host (media server, client, or cluster node) to use an external CA-signed certificate after installation
- Configuration options for external CA-signed certificates
- ECA_CERT_PATH for NetBackup servers and clients
- About protecting the MSDP catalog
- How to set up malware scanning
- About backup anomaly detection
Enable FIPS mode for the NetBackup Authentication Broker service
The NetBackup Authentication Broker (nbatd) service runs only on the NetBackup primary server, therefore you need to enable FIPS mode on the primary server to enable it for the nbatd service.
FIPS mode is disabled by default.
To enable FIPS mode for the nbatd service
- Open the following directory on the primary server:
On UNIX: /usr/openv/netbackup/sec/at/bin/
On Windows: install_path\NetBackup\sec\at\bin\
- Run the following command:
On UNIX: run vssregctl -s -f /usr/openv/var/global/vxss/eab/data/root/.VRTSat/profile/VRTSatlocal.conf -b "Security\Authentication\Client" -k FipsMode -t int -v 1
On Windows: run vssregctl -s -f "install_path\NetBackup\var\global\vxss\eab\data\systemprofile\VRTSatlocal.conf" -b "Security\Authentication\Client" -k FipsMode -t int -v 1
For example:
If the install_path is "C:\Program Files\VERITAS" location, run the following command on Windows:
vssregctl -s -f "C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\var\global\vxss\eab\data\systemprofile\VRTSatlocal.conf" -b "Security\Authentication\Client" -k FipsMode -t int -v 1 3
Check the nbatd logs.
Location of the nbatd logs:
On UNIX:
/usr/openv/logs/nbatd
On Windows:
install_path\NetBackup\logs\nbatd
The following log lines should be present:
*** Trying to start Broker In FIPS mode ***
*** Broker In FIPS mode already ***
- Restart the NetBackup services.