Veritas NetBackup™ OpsCenter Administrator's Guide
- Overview of NetBackup OpsCenter
- About OpsCenter
- About OpsCenter components
- About starting the OpsCenter console
- About OpsCenter console components
- About the View pane
- Sizing the Content pane
- About using tables
- Installing OpsCenter
- About planning an OpsCenter installation
- About the OpsCenter licensing model
- Managed NetBackup master server considerations
- About designing your OpsCenter Server
- About planning an OpsCenter Agent deployment
- Installing OpsCenter on Windows and UNIX
- About OpsCenter upgrade on Windows and UNIX
- About post-installation tasks
- About uninstalling OpsCenter on Windows and UNIX
- About clustering OpsCenter
- About planning an OpsCenter installation
- OpsCenter Getting Started feature
- Administering OpsCenter
- About OpsCenter services and processes used by OpsCenter
- OpsCenter server scripts on Windows and UNIX
- About OpsCenter database administration
- About backup and restore of OpsCenter and OpsCenter Analytics
- About communication ports and firewall considerations in OpsCenter
- About OpsCenter log files
- Understanding OpsCenter settings
- Setting user preferences
- About managing licenses
- Configuring the data purge period on the OpsCenter Server
- Configuring SMTP server settings for OpsCenter
- Adding host aliases in OpsCenter
- Merging objects (hosts) in OpsCenter
- Modifying tape library information in OpsCenter
- Copying a user profile in OpsCenter
- Setting report export location in OpsCenter
- About managing Object Types in OpsCenter
- About managing OpsCenter users
- About adding AD / LDAP user groups in OpsCenter
- About managing recipients in OpsCenter
- About managing cost analysis and chargeback for OpsCenter Analytics
- Understanding data collection
- About data collection in OpsCenter
- About managing OpsCenter Agents
- About managing OpsCenter Data Collectors
- About configuring data collection for NetBackup
- About the Breakup Jobs option
- Viewing master server details and data collection status
- Collecting data from PureDisk
- Managing OpsCenter views
- About OpsCenter views
- About managing OpsCenter views
- View filters in OpsCenter
- Monitoring NetBackup using OpsCenter
- Controlling the scope of Monitor views
- About monitoring NetBackup using the Overview tab
- About monitoring NetBackup jobs
- Monitor > Services view
- About monitoring Audit Trails
- Managing NetBackup using OpsCenter
- About managing alert policies
- About creating (or changing) an alert policy
- About managing NetBackup storage
- About managing NetBackup devices
- About Operational Restore and Guided Recovery operations
- About Operational Restores from OpsCenter
- About OpsCenter Guided Recovery
- Troubleshooting Guided Recovery
- About managing NetBackup Hosts
- About managing NetBackup Deployment Analysis
- Data compilation for the Capacity License report
- Generating a Capacity Licensing report
- Supporting Replication Director in OpsCenter
- Understanding and configuring OpsCenter alerts
- About using SNMP
- About using SNMP
- Reporting in OpsCenter
- About OpsCenter reports
- Report Templates in OpsCenter
- About managing reports in OpsCenter
- Creating a custom report in OpsCenter
- About managing My Reports
- About managing My Dashboard
- About managing reports folders in OpsCenter
- About managing report schedules in OpsCenter
- About managing time schedules in OpsCenter
- Appendix A. Additional information on PureDisk data collection
- Appendix B. Attributes of NetBackup data
- Appendix C. Man pages for CLIs
- Appendix D. Creating views using CSV, TSV, and XML files
- Appendix E. Error messages in OpsCenter
Collecting data from PureDisk
OpsCenter supports collection of data from Veritas NetBackup PureDisk. The collected data is stored in the OpsCenter database, based on which you can generate reports. OpsCenter can collect Policy & Schedule and Job data types from PureDisk Storage Pool Authority (PureDisk SPA).
For more details on PureDisk, refer to the NetBackup PureDisk documentation.
PureDisk SPA and its components that run on the PureDisk operating system (PDOS). The Single Instance Storage (SIS) or deduplication technology of NetBackup PureDisk is unique in storage and backup industry. PureDisk identifies files and the data segments that contain identical data and treats them as a single instance of a file, which it backs up only once. This lets you save storage space. Attributes of identical files, such as name and date of modification can vary.
While backing up a file, PureDisk determines whether multiple instances of the file are present on hosts across the network, including remote hosts. By using the deduplication technology, PureDisk stores only one instance of the file.
Table: Steps to collect data from PureDisk describes the steps that you need to carry out to collect data from PureDisk.
Table: Steps to collect data from PureDisk
Step number | Step | Reference topic |
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Step 1 | Install OpsCenter server. Note: When you install OpsCenter server,OpsCenter Integrated Agent is also installed and configured, which you can use to collect only PureDisk data. To collect PureDisk data, you do not need to manually install or configure OpsCenter Agent. You cannot delete the Integrated Agent. Note: You can collect PureDisk data only through the OpsCenter Integrated Agent. | |
Step 2 | You need to establish trust between the authentication brokers of OpsCenter and PureDisk SPA for secure communication. Setting up trust is a pre-requisite for PureDisk data collection from OpsCenter. | See Setting up a trust between the PureDisk SPA host and the OpsCenter OpsCenter host. |
Step 3 | Using the OpsCenter console, configure PureDisk data collector for the Integrated Agent. |