Veritas NetBackup™ Security and Encryption Guide
- Increasing NetBackup security
- Security deployment models
- Port security
- About NetBackup daemons, ports, and communication
- Additional port information for products that interoperate with NetBackup
- About configuring ports
- Auditing NetBackup operations
- Configuring Enhanced Auditing
- Access control security
- NetBackup Access Control Security (NBAC)
- Configuring NetBackup Access Control (NBAC)
- Configuring Access Control host properties for the master and media server
- Access Control host properties dialog for the client
- Troubleshooting Access Management
- Windows verification points
- UNIX verification points
- Verification points in a mixed environment with a UNIX master server
- Verification points in a mixed environment with a Windows master server
- About determining who can access NetBackup
- Viewing specific user permissions for NetBackup user groups
- Security management in NetBackup
- About the Security Management utilities
- About audit events
- About host management
- Adding shared or cluster mappings
- About global security settings
- About host name-based certificates
- About host ID-based certificates
- Using the Certificate Management utility to issue and deploy host ID-based certificates
- About certificate deployment security levels
- Setting up trust with the master server (Certificate Authority)
- About reissuing host ID-based certificates
- About Token Management for host ID-based certificates
- About the host ID-based certificate revocation list
- About revoking host ID-based certificates
- Security certificate deployment in a clustered NetBackup setup
- About deployment of a host ID-based certificate on a clustered NetBackup host
- Data at rest encryption security
- About NetBackup client encryption
- Configuring standard encryption on clients
- About configuring standard encryption from the server
- Configuring legacy encryption on clients
- About configuring legacy encryption from the client
- About configuring legacy encryption from the server
- Additional legacy key file security for UNIX clients
- Data at rest key management
- About the Key Management Service (KMS)
- Installing KMS
- Configuring KMS
- About key groups and key records
- Overview of key record states
- Configuring NetBackup to work with KMS
- About using KMS for encryption
- KMS database constituents
- Command line interface (CLI) commands
- About exporting and importing keys from the KMS database
- Troubleshooting KMS
- Regenerating keys and certificates
- NetBackup web services account
Revoking a host ID-based certificate
NetBackup administrators may consider revoking a host ID-based certificate under various conditions. For example, if the administrator detects that client security has been compromised, if a client is decommissioned, or if NetBackup is uninstalled from the host. A revoked certificate cannot be used to communicate with master server web services.
See About revoking host ID-based certificates.
Security best practices suggest that the administrator explicitly revoke the certificates for any host that is no longer active, regardless of whether the certificate is still deployed on the host, or whether it has been successfully removed from the host.
Note:
Do not revoke a certificate of the master server. If you do, NetBackup operations may cease.
To revoke a host ID-based certificate using the NetBackup Administration Console
- In the NetBackup Administration Console, expand Security Management > Certificate Management.
- Select the certificate to be revoked.
- On the Actions menu, select Revoke Certificate.
- Select a reason from the drop-down menu and click Continue.
The certificate is revoked.
After you revoke a host's certificate, do the following actions in NetBackup:
Remove the host from backup policies.
For a NetBackup media server, deactivate it.
To revoke a host ID-based certificate using the command line
- The master server administrator must be logged in to the NetBackup Web Management Service to perform this task. Use the following command to log in:
bpnbat -login -logintype WEB
- Run one of the following commands to revoke the certificate using the host name or the host ID.
Revoke using the host name:
nbcertcmd -revokeCertificate -host host_name
Note:
You must provide the primary name of the host for which you want to revoke the certificate. If you provide any of the host ID-to-host name mappings that are added for the host, the certificate cannot be revoked.
Revoke using the host ID:
nbcertcmd -revokeCertificate -hostID host_id
Additional parameters can be used to indicate a revocation reason code and the master server.
After you revoke a host's certificate, do the following actions in NetBackup:
Remove the host from backup policies.
For a NetBackup media server, deactivate it.
Note:
Revoking a certificate does not delete the certificate from the local store of the non-master host.