NetBackup™ Web UI VMware Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (9.0.0.1, 9.0)
  1. Introducing the NetBackup web user interface
    1.  
      About the NetBackup web UI
    2.  
      Terminology
    3.  
      Sign in to the NetBackup web UI
    4.  
      Sign out of the NetBackup web UI
  2. Monitoring and notifications
    1.  
      The NetBackup dashboard
    2.  
      Monitoring jobs
    3.  
      Filter jobs in the job list
  3. Managing VMware servers
    1.  
      Add VMware servers
    2.  
      Validate and update VMware server credentials
    3.  
      Browse VMware servers
    4.  
      Remove VMware servers
    5.  
      Create an intelligent VM group
    6.  
      Remove an intelligent VM group
    7.  
      Add a VMware access host
    8.  
      Remove a VMware access host
    9.  
      Change resource limits for VMware resource types
    10.  
      Change the autodiscovery frequency
    11.  
      Discover VMware server assets manually
    12.  
      VMWARE_AUTODISCOVERY_INTERVAL option for NetBackup servers
  4. Protecting VMs
    1.  
      Protect VMs or intelligent VM groups
    2. Edit protection settings for a VMware asset
      1.  
        Schedules and retention
      2.  
        Backup options and Advanced options
      3.  
        Exclude disks from backups
      4.  
        Snapshot retry options
    3.  
      Remove protection from VMs or intelligent VM groups
    4.  
      View the protection status of VMs or intelligent VM groups
  5. Instant access
    1.  
      Create an instant access VM
    2.  
      Restore files and folders from a VM backup image
    3.  
      Download files and folders from a VM backup image
    4.  
      Things to consider before you use the instant access feature
    5. Instant access Build Your Own (BYO)
      1.  
        Prerequisites of Instant Access Build Your Own (BYO)
      2.  
        Hardware configuration requirement of Instant Access Build Your Own (BYO)
      3.  
        Frequently asked questions
  6. VM recovery
    1.  
      Recover a VM
    2.  
      About VMware agentless restore
    3.  
      Prerequisites and limitations of VMware agentless restores
    4.  
      Recover files and folders with VMware agentless restore
  7. Troubleshooting VMware operations
    1.  
      Errors when adding VMware servers
    2.  
      Errors when browsing VMware servers
    3.  
      Errors for the Status for a newly discovered VM
    4.  
      Error when downloading files from an instant access VM
    5.  
      Troubleshooting backups and restores of excluded virtual disks
    6.  
      Restore fails for a virtual machine with multiple datastores
    7.  
      Errors when you change the recovery destination

Monitoring jobs

Use the Jobs node to monitor the jobs in your NetBackup environment and view the details for a specific job.

To monitor a job

  1. On the left, click Activity monitor > Jobs.
  2. Click on a job name that you want to view.

    On the Overview tab you can view information about a job.

    • The File List contains the files that are included in the backup image.

    • The Status section shows the status and the status codes that are related to the job. Click the status code number to view information about this status code in the Veritas Knowledge Base.

      See the NetBackup Status Codes Reference Guide.

  3. Click the Details tab to view the logged details about a job. You can filter the logs by error type using the drop-down menu.