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NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
Last Published:
2025-01-13
Product(s):
NetBackup (10.5)
- Section I. About NetBackup
- Section II. 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
- View the status of a redirected restore
- Troubleshooting the viewing and managing of jobs
- Device monitor
- Notifications
- Registering the data collector
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- Section III. Configuring hosts
- Managing host properties
- Overview of host properties
- View or edit the host properties of a server or client
- Host information and settings in Host properties
- Reset a host's attributes
- Active Directory properties
- Backup pool host properties
- Busy file settings properties
- Clean up properties
- Client name properties
- Client attributes properties
- Client settings properties for UNIX clients
- Client settings properties for Windows clients
- Cloud Storage properties
- Credential access properties
- Data Classification properties
- Default job priorities properties
- Distributed application restore mapping properties
- Encryption properties
- Enterprise Vault properties
- Enterprise Vault hosts properties
- Exchange properties
- Exclude list properties
- Fibre transport properties
- Firewall properties
- General server properties
- Global attributes properties
- Logging properties
- Lotus Notes properties
- Media properties
- Network properties
- Network settings properties
- Nutanix AHV access hosts
- Port ranges properties
- Preferred network properties
- Add or edit a Preferred network setting
- How NetBackup uses the directives to determine which network to use
- Configurations to use IPv6 networks
- Configurations to use IPv4 networks
- Order of directive processing in the Preferred network properties
- bptestnetconn utility to display Preferred network information
- Configuration to prohibit using a specified address
- Configuration to prefer a specified address
- Configuration that restricts NetBackup to one set of addresses
- Configuration that limits the addresses, but allows any interfaces
- Properties setting in host properties
- RHV access hosts properties
- Resilient network properties
- Resource limit properties
- Restore failover properties
- Retention periods properties
- Scalable Storage properties
- Servers properties
- SharePoint properties
- SLP settings properties
- Throttle bandwidth properties
- Timeouts properties
- Universal settings properties
- UNIX client properties
- UNIX Server properties
- User account settings properties
- VMware access hosts properties
- Windows client properties
- Configuration options not found in the host properties
- About using commands to change the configuration options on UNIX or Linux clients and servers
- Managing credentials for workloads and systems that NetBackup accesses
- Managing deployment
- Managing host properties
- Section IV. Configuring storage
- Overview of storage options
- Configuring disk storage
- Create a Media Server Deduplication Pool storage server
- Integrating MSDP Cloud and CMS
- Create a Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) storage server for image sharing
- Create an AdvancedDisk, OpenStorage (OST), or Cloud Connector storage server
- Create an MSDP server for MSDP volume group (MVG)
- Create the MVG volume
- Edit a storage server
- About configuring disk pool storage
- Share images from an on-premises location to the cloud
- Overview of universal shares
- About the MSDP object store
- Managing media servers
- Configuring storage units
- Managing robots and tape drives
- NetBackup robot types
- Add a robot to NetBackup manually
- Managing robots
- Managing tape drives
- Change a drive comment
- About downed drives
- Change a drive operating mode
- Change a tape drive path
- Change the operating mode for a drive path
- Change tape drive properties
- Change a tape drive to a shared drive
- Clean a tape drive
- Delete a drive
- Reset a drive
- Reset the mount time of a drive
- Set the drive cleaning frequency
- View drive details
- Managing tape media
- About NetBackup tape volumes
- About NetBackup volume pools
- About NetBackup volume groups
- NetBackup media types
- About adding volumes
- Managing volumes
- Edit a volume
- About moving volumes
- Move volumes
- About recycling a volume
- About assigning and deassigning volumes
- Delete a volume
- Changing the media owner of a volume
- Changing the volume group assignment
- About rules for moving volumes between groups
- Rescan and update barcodes
- About barcode rules
- About injecting and ejecting volumes
- Label a volume
- Erase a volume
- Freeze or unfreeze a volume
- Suspend or unsuspend volumes
- Managing volume pools
- Managing volume groups
- Inventorying robots
- About robot inventory
- When to inventory a robot
- About showing a robot's contents
- Showing the media in a robot
- About comparing a robot's contents with the volume configuration
- Comparing media in a robot with the volume configuration
- About previewing volume configuration changes
- Previewing volume configuration changes for a robot
- About updating the NetBackup volume configuration
- Update the NetBackup volume configuration with a robot's contents
- Robot inventory options
- Advanced options for robot inventory settings
- Configure media ID generation rules
- Barcode rules settings
- Media ID generation options
- Configure media settings
- About media type mapping rules
- Configure media type mappings
- Staging backups
- Troubleshooting storage configuration
- Section V. Configuring backups
- Overview of backups in the NetBackup web UI
- Managing protection plans
- Managing classic policies
- Protecting the NetBackup catalog
- About the NetBackup catalog
- Catalog backups
- The catalog backup process
- Prerequisites for backing up the NetBackup catalog
- Configuring catalog backups
- Backing up NetBackup catalogs manually
- Concurrently running catalog backups with other backups
- Catalog policy schedule considerations
- How catalog incrementals and standard backups interact on UNIX
- Determining whether or not a catalog backup succeeded
- Strategies that ensure successful NetBackup catalog backups
- Disaster recovery emails and the disaster recovery files
- Disaster recovery packages
- Set the passphrase to encrypt disaster recovery packages
- Recovering the catalog
- Managing backup images
- Pausing data protection activity
- Section VI. Managing security
- Security events and audit logs
- Managing security certificates
- Managing host mappings
- Minimizing security configuration risk
- Configuring multi-person authorization
- About multi-person authorization
- Workflow to configure multi-person authorization for NetBackup operations
- RBAC roles and permissions for multi-person authorization
- Multi-person authorization process with respect to roles
- NetBackup operations that need multi-person authorization
- Configure multi-person authorization
- View multi-person authorization tickets
- Manage multi-person authorization tickets
- Add exempted users
- Schedule expiration and purging of multi-person authorization tickets
- Disable multi-person authorization
- Managing user sessions
- Configuring multifactor authentication
- About multifactor authentication
- Configure multifactor authentication for your user account
- Disable multifactor authentication for your user account
- Enforce multifactor authentication for all users
- Configure multifactor authentication for your user account when it is enforced in the domain
- Reset multifactor authentication for a user
- Managing the global security settings for the primary server
- View the 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
- Validate the disaster recovery package passphrase
- About trusted primary servers
- Configure the audit retention period
- Using access keys, API keys, and access codes
- Configuring authentication options
- Managing role-based access control
- Disabling access to NetBackup interfaces for OS Administrators
- Section VII. Detection and reporting
- Detecting anomalies
- About backup anomaly detection
- Configure backup anomaly detection settings
- View backup anomalies
- Disable backup anomaly detection and computation of entropy and file attributes for a client
- About system anomaly detection
- Configure system anomaly detection settings
- Configure rules-based anomaly detection
- Configure risk engine-based anomaly detection
- View system anomalies
- Malware scanning
- Usage reporting and capacity licensing
- Detecting anomalies
- Section VIII. NetBackup workloads and NetBackup Flex Scale
- Section IX. Administering NetBackup
- Management topics
- Managing client backups and restores
- About server-directed restores
- About client-redirected restores
- About restoring the files that have Access Control Lists (ACLs)
- About setting the original atime for files during restores on UNIX
- Restoring the System State
- About the backup and restore of compressed files on VxFS file systems
- About backups and restores on ReFS
- Section X. Disaster recovery and troubleshooting
- Section XI. Other topics
- Additional NetBackup catalog information
- About the NetBackup database
- About the NetBackup database installation
- Post-installation tasks
- Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility on Windows
- Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility on UNIX
Send email notifications for job failures
You can configure NetBackup to send email notifications when job failures occur. This way administrators spend less time monitoring NetBackup for job failures and manually creating tickets to track issues. NetBackup supports the ticketing systems that use inbound email service for ticket creation.
See Status codes that generate alerts.
NetBackup generates alerts based on certain job failure conditions or NetBackup status codes. Alerts that are similar or have a similar reason for failure are marked as duplicates. Email notifications for duplicate alerts are not sent for the next 24 hours. If a notification cannot be sent, NetBackup retries every 2 hours, up to three attempts.
NetBackup audits an event if changes are made to the alert settings or when it cannot generate an alert or send an email notification. See About NetBackup auditing.
Prerequisites
Review the following requirements before you configure email notifications using a ticketing system.
The ticketing system is up and running.
The SMTP server is up and running.
A policy is configured in the ticketing system to create tickets (or incidents) based on the inbound emails that NetBackup sends.
To configure email notifications
- At the top right, click Settings > Email notifications.
- Go to the Email notifications tab.
- Turn on Send email notifications.
- Enter the email information including the recipient's email address, the sender's email address, and the email sender's name.
- Enter the SMTP server details including the SMTP server name and port number.
Provide the SMTP username and password if you have specified the credentials earlier on the SMTP server.
- Select Save.
- Log on to the ticketing system to view the tickets that were created based on NetBackup alerts.
Exclude specific status codes from email notifications
You can exclude specific status codes so that email notifications are not sent for these errors.
To exclude specific status codes
- At the top right, click Settings > Email notifications.
- Select the Excluded notifications tab.
- Go to Job failures.
- If necessary, clear Do not send any notifications.
- Enter the status codes or a range of status codes (separated by commas) for which you do not want to receive email notifications.
- Select Save.
Sample email notification for an alert
An email notification for an alert contains information about the primary server, job, policy, schedule, and error. Emails may contain other information based on the type of job. For example, for VMware job failures, details such as vCenter Server and ESX host are present in the email notification.
Example email notification:
Primary Server: primary1.example.com
Client Name: client1.example.com
Job ID: 50
Job Start Time: 2018-05-17 14:43:52.0
Job End Time: 2018-05-17 15:01:27.0
Job Type: BACKUP
Parent Job ID: 49
Policy Name: Win_policy
Policy Type: WINDOWS_NT
Schedule Name: schedule1
Schedule Type: FULL
Status Code: 2074
Error Message: Disk volume is down