NetBackup™ Web UI Security Administrator's Guide
- Introducing the NetBackup web user interface
- Managing role-based access control
- About role-based access control (RBAC) in NetBackup
- NetBackup default RBAC roles
- Configuring RBAC
- Add a custom role
- Edit or delete a custom role
- About object groups
- Steps to create an object group
- Edit or delete an object group
- Add access for a user through access rules
- Edit or remove user access rules
- Adding AD or LDAP domains
- Security events and audit logs
- Managing hosts
- Managing security certificates
- Managing user sessions
- Managing master server security settings
- Certificate authority for secure communication
- Disable communication with NetBackup 8.0 and earlier hosts
- Disable automatic mapping of NetBackup host names
- About NetBackup certificate deployment security levels
- Select a security level for NetBackup certificate deployment
- Set a passphrase for disaster recovery
- Creating and using API keys
- Configuring smart card authentication
- Troubleshooting access to the web UI
About security management and certificates in NetBackup
NetBackup uses security certificates to authenticate the NetBackup hosts. These certificates must conform to the X.509 public key infrastructure (PKI) standard. With NetBackup 8.1, 8.1.1, and 8.1.2, NetBackup certificates are used for secure communication. In NetBackup 8.2 and later you can use NetBackup certificates or external certificates.
NetBackup certificates are issued to hosts by default and the NetBackup master server acts as the CA and manages the Certificate Revocation List (CRL). The determines how certificates are deployed to NetBackup hosts and how often the CRL is updated on each host. If a host needs a new certificate (the original certificate is expired or revoked), you can use an NetBackup authorization token to reissue the certificate.
External certificates are those that a trusted external CA signed. When you configure NetBackup to use external certificates, the master server, media servers, and clients in the NetBackup domain use the external certificates for secure communication. Additionally, the NetBackup web server uses these certificates for communication between the NetBackup web UI and the NetBackup hosts. Deployment of external certificates, updating or replacing external certificates, and CRL management for the external CA are managed outside of NetBackup.
For more information on external certificates, see the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide.
NetBackup 8.1 and later hosts can communicate with each other only in a secure mode. Depending on the NetBackup version, these hosts must have a certificate that the NetBackup CA issued or that another trusted CA issued. A NetBackup certificate that is used for secure communications over a control channel is also referred to as host ID-based certificate.
Any security certificates that NetBackup generated for 8.0 hosts are referred to as host name-based certificates. For more details on these certificates, refer to the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide.