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
- Getting started with OpsCenter
- Administering OpsCenter
- About the 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
- Managing static views
- Managing dynamic 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 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
About the OpsCenter Getting Started feature
OpsCenter provides you with the Getting Started feature that assists you in the initial OpsCenter configuration. When you logon to OpsCenter for the first time, you need to do a few initial configurations in the following recommended sequence to start monitoring NetBackup:
Step | Task | Details |
---|---|---|
Step 1 |
Add NetBackup Master Servers |
Adding NetBackup Master Servers in the OpsCenter console is the first step of the NetBackup data collection. You can add multiple NetBackup master servers in the OpsCenter console. |
Step 2 |
Add OpsCenter views / groups |
After adding NetBackup master servers, you can group them (or NetBackup policies or clients) into logical groups called OpsCenter views based on their locations or applications. You can group master servers, policies, or clients to restrict their access to the OpsCenter users. |
Step 3 |
Add users into OpsCenter |
Once the master servers, policies, or clients are grouped, you can add users in OpsCenter who can access OpsCenter views depending on their roles. OpsCenter provides integration with Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and LDAP. You can add AD / LDAP users and user groups in OpsCenter. |
Step 4 |
Configure email settings |
OpsCenter provides alerting and reporting functionality. Once you configure SMTP email server, OpsCenter can automatically send email notifications on alerts and export reports. |
You can carry out these tasks using other tabs and screens across the OpsCenter user interface. However, the OpsCenter Getting Started feature provides four simple set of wizards and user interface screens that help you do all the required configurations in one go. Once you do all these configurations, NetBackup data collection begins. You can then generate the required reports using the Reports tab.
After the initial configuration, if you want to access the OpsCenter Getting Started feature, click
on the OpsCenter user interface.Figure: OpsCenter Getting Started GUI displays the OpsCenter Getting Started feature GUI.