Veritas NetBackup™ Installation Guide
- Preparing for installation
- General installation information
- Available NetBackup installation methods
- About compatibility between NetBackup versions
- About NetBackup software availability
- How to install NetBackup
- Creating the user account to support the NetBackup web server
- About storage device configuration
- About security certificates for NetBackup hosts
- Restrictions on the NetBackup installation directory
- Installation operational notes and limitations
- NetBackup servers must use a host name that is compliant with RFC 1123 and RFC 952
- Host ID-based certificate is not deployed during installation on 8.1 media server or client host with dual stack configuration
- NetBackup 8.2 and RHEL 8 installation issue
- NetBackup 8.2 and SUSE 15 installation issue
- External certificate authority certificates supported by NetBackup 8.2
- SCCM and Chef deployment tools and documentation now available
- SORT information
- Smart Meter information
- General installation information
- NetBackup licenses
- Installing server software on UNIX systems
- Installation and upgrade requirements for UNIX and Linux
- Do not mix non-English versions of Windows and UNIX platforms unless master and media servers are NetBackup appliances
- NetBackup installations on environments that run different versions of UNIX-based operating systems
- Special installation guidelines for Solaris systems
- Special installation guidelines for UNIX clustered environments
- How the installation script works
- Installing NetBackup master server software on UNIX
- Installing NetBackup media server software on UNIX
- About pushing client software from a master server to clients
- Installation and upgrade requirements for UNIX and Linux
- Installing server software on Windows systems
- Installation and upgrade requirements for Windows and Windows clusters
- Requirements for Windows cluster installations and upgrades
- Performing local, remote, or clustered server installation on Windows systems
- Post-installation tasks for NetBackup cluster environments
- Verifying Windows cluster installations or upgrades
- Installing NetBackup servers silently on Windows systems
- About the administrative interfaces
- About the NetBackup web user interface
- About the NetBackup Administration Console
- Installing the NetBackup Administration Console
- Installing multiple versions of the NetBackup Administration Console on Windows
- Removing earlier versions of the NetBackup Administration Console on Windows
- About the NetBackup Remote Administration Console
- Installing the NetBackup Remote Administration Console
- Installing NetBackup client software
- About NetBackup client installation
- About NetBackup client installation on Windows
- About NetBackup client installation on UNIX/Linux
- About UNIX and Linux client installation methods
- Installing UNIX clients locally
- Install of the UNIX and Linux client binaries with native installers
- About remote installation methods for UNIX/Linux clients
- Adding a UNIX/Linux client after initial server installation
- Upgrading clients after servers are upgraded
- Configuring NetBackup
- Upgrading NetBackup software
- Removing NetBackup server and client software
- About NetBackup server software removal on UNIX systems
- About NetBackup client software removal on UNIX and Linux systems
- Removing NetBackup from UNIX and Linux servers and clients
- About NetBackup server software removal on Windows systems
- Removing NetBackup server and client software from Windows servers, clusters, and clients
- Removing NetBackup LiveUpdate from Windows systems
- About removal of the Java Console state data from Windows servers and Windows clients
- Removing a clustered media server by migrating all data to a new media server
- Reference
- Generate a certificate on the inactive nodes of a clustered master server
- About the NetBackup answer file
- About RBAC bootstrapping
- NetBackup master server web server user and group creation
- About the NetBackup Java Runtime Environment
- Using NetApp disk arrays with Replication Director
- Security updates to the NetBackup database
- Size guidance for Veritas NetBackup master server and domain
Creating the user account to support the NetBackup web server
Beginning with NetBackup 8.0, the NetBackup master server includes a configured web server to support critical backup operations. This web server operates under user account elements with limited privileges. These user account elements must be available on each master server (or each node of a clustered master server).
You can use numerous procedures to create users and groups in operating systems. Some specific approaches are shown but other methods may accomplish the same goal. The home directory path, user name, and group names are not hard-coded, and can be changed. The default local user name is nbwebsvc, and the default local group name is nbwebgrp.
Note:
For UNIX and Linux platforms, the UID must be the same for each local account in a clustered environment. Be sure that the local accounts are defined consistently on all cluster nodes.
To create the user account and the user group on UNIX or Linux
- Create the local group with the command shown:
Command: # groupadd group_name
Example: # groupadd nbwebgrp
- Create the local user account with the command shown:
Command: # useradd -g group_name -c comment -d /usr/openv/wmc user_name
Example: # useradd -g nbwebgrp -c 'NetBackup Web Services application account' -d /usr/openv/wmc nbwebsvc
To create the user account and the user group on Windows
Note:
You must use domain accounts in clustered environments on Windows.
Note:
Web service user account names are limited to 20 characters.
- Create the local user account with the command shown:
Command: C:\>net user user_name StrongPassword /add (where StrongPassword is a strong password to associate with the account)
Example: C:\>net user nbwebsvc 1U*s7lQ# /add
- Create the local group with the command shown:
Command: C:\>net localgroup group_name /add
Example: C:\>net localgroup nbwebgrp /add
- Make the new user a member of the new group with the command shown:
Command: C:\>net localgroup group_name user_name /add
Example: C:\>net localgroup nbwebgrp nbwebsvc /add
- Grant the Log On As a Service right to the new user as follows:
Go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Local Security Policy.
Under Security Settings, click Local Policies and then User Rights Assignment.
Right-click on Log on as a service and select Properties.
Add the local user.
Save your changes and close the Log on as a service properties dialog.
Installation of the NetBackup master server fails if any of these requirements are not met. On Windows, you are asked to provide the password for the user account as part of the installation process.