NetBackup IT Analytics Data Collector Installation Guide for the Cloud

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Product(s): NetBackup IT Analytics (11.5)
  1. Pre-Installation Setup for Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    1.  
      Pre-Installation setup for Amazon Web services (AWS)
    2.  
      Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (Amazon Web services)
    3.  
      Prerequisite Amazon Web services (AWS) configurations
    4.  
      Configure an S3 bucket to receive billing reports
    5.  
      Select cost allocation tags
    6.  
      Create an AWS IAM user
    7. Mandatory probe user privileges
      1.  
        For all probes
      2.  
        For independent probes
    8. Link AWS accounts for Collection of consolidated billing data
      1.  
        Create a role for NetBackup IT Analytics Data Collection
      2.  
        Add the role to the IAM user
    9.  
      Installation overview (Amazon Web Services - AWS)
    10.  
      Add an Amazon Web Services (AWS) policy
  2. Pre-installation setup for Google Cloud Platform
    1.  
      Overview
    2.  
      Pre-installation setup for GCP
    3.  
      Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (GCP)
    4.  
      Installation GCP
    5.  
      Adding policy
    6.  
      Testing the collection
    7.  
      Creating an IAM role
    8.  
      Billing Data Access Role
    9.  
      Cloud API
    10.  
      Project access
  3. Pre-Installation Setup for OpenStack Ceilometer
    1.  
      Pre-Installation setup for OpenStack Ceilometer
    2.  
      Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (OpenStack Ceilometer)
    3.  
      Installation Overview (OpenStack Ceilometer)
    4.  
      Adding an OpenStack Ceilometer Data Collector policy
  4. Pre-Installation Setup for OpenStack Swift
    1.  
      Pre-Installation setup for OpenStack Swift
    2.  
      Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (OpenStack Swift)
    3.  
      Installation overview (OpenStack Swift)
    4.  
      Adding an OpenStack Swift Data Collector policy
  5. Pre-Installation Setup for Microsoft Azure
    1.  
      Pre-Installation setup for Microsoft Azure
    2.  
      Setting up credentials for Microsoft Azure Data Collection
    3.  
      Install the Azure PowerShell client on a Windows computer
    4.  
      Find your tenant and subscription ID
    5.  
      Register a new application for the Data Collector
    6.  
      Create a principal and assign role to the application
    7.  
      Prerequisites for Adding Data Collectors (Microsoft Azure)
    8.  
      Installation overview (Microsoft Azure)
    9.  
      Add a Microsoft Azure Data Collector policy
  6. Installing the Data Collector Software
    1.  
      Introduction
    2.  
      Installing the WMI Proxy service (Windows host resources only)
    3.  
      Testing WMI connectivity
    4.  
      Install Data Collector Software on Windows
    5.  
      Install Data Collector software on Linux
    6.  
      Deploy Data Collector in native Kubernetes environment
    7.  
      Configure Data Collector manually for Cohesity NetBackup
    8.  
      Install Data Collector binaries on Windows (without configuration)
    9.  
      Install Data Collector binaries on Linux host (without configuration)
  7. Validating Data Collection
    1.  
      Validation methods
    2.  
      Data Collectors: Vendor-Specific validation methods
    3. Working with on-demand Data Collection
      1.  
        View real-time logging during an on-demand collection
      2.  
        Generating debug level logs during an on-demand collection
    4.  
      Using the CLI check install utility
    5.  
      List Data Collector configurations
  8. Uninstalling the Data Collector
    1.  
      Uninstall the Data Collector on Linux
    2.  
      Uninstall the Data Collector on Windows
  9. Manually Starting the Data Collector
    1.  
      Introduction
  10. Appendix A. Firewall Configuration: Default Ports
    1.  
      Firewall configuration: Default ports

Prerequisites for adding Data Collectors (Amazon Web services)

  • 64-bit OS. See the Certified Configurations Guide for supported operating systems.

  • When the NetBackup IT Analytics system collects data from any vendor subsystem, the collection process expects name/value pairs to be in US English, and requires the installation to be done by an Administrator with a US English locale. The server's language version can be non-US English.

  • Supports Amazon Corretto 17. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of the Open Java Development Kit (OpenJDK).

  • For performance reasons, do not install Data Collectors on the same server as the NetBackup IT Analytics Portal. However, if you must have both on the same server, verify that the Portal and Data Collector software do not reside in the same directory.

  • Install only one Data Collector on a server (or OS instance).

  • Amazon cloud computing resources are hosted in multiple locations world-wide. These locations are composed of AWS Regions. NetBackup IT Analytics enables you to configure the default region using the advance parameter.

    • Advance parameter: AWS_DEFAULT_REGION

    • Value: Veritas suggests determining the region from the following document and specify appropriate region from the Region column of the Region availability table.

      AWS Document

      Note:

      If no value is specified NetBackup IT Analytics considers us-west-2 as the default value.