Veritas™ Usage Insights for NetBackup Getting Started Guide
- Veritas™ Usage Insights for NetBackup
- About Veritas NetInsights Console
- About Veritas Usage Insights
- Data protection, privacy, and security standards
- Data types collected and data collection events
- Local repository for telemetry data
- Enable Veritas Usage Insights
- Important customer registration key information
- Data transmission to Veritas
- Manual upload of telemetry information
- Proxy support in Usage Insights
- Frequently asked questions about Usage Insights
- Frequently asked questions about licensing
- Further information
Data types collected and data collection events
In connection with Customer's use of the Licensed Software, Veritas may collect, retain, disclose and use certain information ("Collected Data"), including, without limitation, through the use of various mechanisms and tools, such as Veritas Usage Insights. For the purposes of this Section, Veritas Usage Insights is a tool that is designed to collect the information below. Usage Insights is designed to allow automatic data uploading to Veritas. A customer's environment may be configured to not allow automatic data uploading.
Deployment information follows:
Hardware and software configuration specifics of each server:
IP address, IP type
Fully qualified domain name (FQDN)
Alias, host name, host ID, platform, and architecture
CPU name, type, clock speed, etc.
Time zone
Environmental language
Operating system version level
Memory size
Licensed NetBackup software version, features, and installed packages
Additional Veritas packages that are installed
Usage information follows:
NetBackup configuration settings
Client counts by policy type and platform
Storage unit configurations
Media server counts by NetBackup version and platform
Policy count by policy type
Policy configurations
Job records
Media counts by media on hold and retention level
Storage Lifecycle Policy (SLP) counts by operation type
SLP configurations
To view the most updated data collection and usage information, please visit:
https://www.veritas.com/about/privacy/
Four different events prompt NetBackup to collect and transmit telemetry information to Veritas via Usage Insights. Some events occur because of user actions and others because of time passage. The events are:
Installation, upgrade, and uninstall events
Run-time events
Domain information
Usage reporting