NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
- Introducing NetBackup
- About NetBackup
- NetBackup documentation
- NetBackup web UI features
- NetBackup administration interfaces
- Terminology
- First-time sign in to the NetBackup web UI
- Sign in to the NetBackup web UI
- Sign out of the NetBackup web UI
- Documentation for Catalog Recovery Wizard, disk array hosts, disk pools, and Host Properties in the NetBackup web UI
- Section I. Monitoring and notifications
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- The NetBackup dashboard
- Activity monitor
- Job monitoring
- Workloads that require a custom RBAC role for specific job permissions
- View a job
- View the jobs in the List view
- View the jobs in the Hierarchy view
- Jobs: cancel, suspend, restart, resume, delete
- Search for or filter jobs in the jobs list
- Create a jobs filter
- Edit, copy, or delete a jobs filter
- Import or export job filters
- Troubleshooting the viewing of jobs
- Notifications
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- Section II. Configuring hosts
- Managing host properties
- Managing credentials for workloads and systems that NetBackup accesses
- Overview of credential management in NetBackup
- Add a credential in NetBackup
- Add a credential for an external KMS
- Add a credential for NetBackup Callhome Proxy
- Edit or delete a named credential
- Add a credential for Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP)
- Edit or delete Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) credentials in NetBackup
- Managing deployment
- Section III. Configuring storage
- Section IV. Configuring backups
- Section V. Managing security
- Security events and audit logs
- Managing security certificates
- Managing host mappings
- Managing user sessions
- Managing the security settings for the primary server
- Certificate authority for secure communication
- Disable communication with NetBackup 8.0 and earlier hosts
- Disable automatic mapping of NetBackup host names
- Configure the global data-in-transit encryption setting
- About NetBackup certificate deployment security levels
- Select a security level for NetBackup certificate deployment
- About TLS session resumption
- Set a passphrase for disaster recovery
- About trusted primary servers
- Using access keys, API keys, and access codes
- Configuring authentication options
- Managing role-based access control
- RBAC features
- Authorized users
- Configuring RBAC
- Notes for using NetBackup RBAC
- Add AD or LDAP domains
- View users in RBAC
- Add a user to a role (non-SAML)
- Add a smart card user to a role (non-SAML, without AD/LDAP)
- Add a user to a role (SAML)
- Remove a user from a role
- Disable web UI access for operating system (OS) administrators
- Disable command-line (CLI) access for operating system (OS) administrators
- Default RBAC roles
- Add a custom RBAC role
- Role permissions
- Manage access permission
- View access definitions
- Section VI. Detection and reporting
- Detecting malware
- About malware detection
- Configure a new scan host pool
- Add an existing scan host
- Manage credentials
- Remove the scan host
- Deactivate the scan host
- Scan a policy client backup images for malware
- Perform malware scanning
- Scan a VMware asset for malware
- View the malware scan status
- Actions for malware scanned images
- Recover from malware-affected images (clients protected by policies)
- Recover a VMware asset affected by malware
- Troubleshooting
- Detecting anomalies
- Usage reporting and capacity licensing
- Detecting malware
- Section VII. NetBackup workloads and NetBackup Flex Scale
- Section VIII. Disaster recovery and troubleshooting
Redirection issues
If you are facing issues with redirection, check the error messages in web services log files to narrow down the cause of the issue. NetBackup creates logs for the NetBackup web server and for the web server applications. These logs are written to the following location:
UNIX:
/usr/openv/logs/nbwebserviceWindows:
install_path\NetBackup\logs\nbwebservice
The IDP metadata XML file contains the IDP certificate, the entity ID, the redirect URL, and the logout URL. The NetBackup web UI can fail to redirect to the IDP sign in page, if the IDP XML metadata file is outdated or corrupted. The following message is added to the web service log:
Failed to redirect to the IDP server.
To ensure that the latest configuration details are available to the NetBackup primary server, download the latest copy of the XML metadata file from the IDP. Use the IDP XML metadata file to add and enable the latest IDP configuration on the NetBackup primary server. See Configure the SAML keystore and add and enable the IDP configuration.
When you enter your credentials in the IDP sign in page, your browser might display an Authentication failed error, instead of redirecting to the NetBackup web UI. Refer to the following table for resolution steps based on the error found in the web service log.
Table:
Web Service log error message | Explanation and recommended action |
|---|---|
userPrincipalName not found in response. | While adding the IDP configuration to the NetBackup primary server, the value entered for the user (-u) option must match the SAML attribute name, which is mapped to the userPrincipalName attribute in AD or LDAP. For more information, See Configure the SAML keystore and add and enable the IDP configuration. |
userPrincipalName is not in expected format | The IDP sends SAML responses to the NetBackup primary server, which contains SAML user and SAML user group information. To enable the IDP to successfully send this information, ensure the value of userPrincipalName attribute sent by the IDP is defined in the format of username@domainname. For more information, See Enroll the NetBackup primary server with the IDP. |
Authentication issue instant is too old or in the future | This error can occur because of the following reasons:
SAML_ASSERTION_LIFETIME_IN_SECS=129600 |
Response is not success | This error can occur because of the following reasons:
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