NetBackup™ Security and Encryption Guide
- Read this first for secure communications in NetBackup
- Communication failure scenarios
- Increasing NetBackup security
- Security deployment models
- Auditing NetBackup operations
- About audit events
- Section I. Identity and access management
- About identity and access management
- AD and LDAP domains
- Access keys
- API keys
- Auth.conf file
- Role-based access control
- Smart card or digital certificate
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Enhanced Auditing
- NetBackup Access Control Security (NBAC)
- Configuring NetBackup Access Control (NBAC)
- Configuring Access Control host properties for the master and media server
- Access Control host properties dialog for the client
- Troubleshooting Access Management
- Windows verification points
- UNIX verification points
- Verification points in a mixed environment with a UNIX master server
- Verification points in a mixed environment with a Windows master server
- About determining who can access NetBackup
- Viewing specific user permissions for NetBackup user groups
- Section II. Encryption of data-in-transit
- NetBackup CA and NetBackup certificates
- About the Security Management utilities
- About host management
- Adding shared or cluster mappings
- Allowing or disallowing automatic certificate reissue
- About global security settings
- About host name-based certificates
- About host ID-based certificates
- Using the Certificate Management utility to issue and deploy host ID-based certificates
- About NetBackup certificate deployment security levels
- Setting up trust with the master server (Certificate Authority)
- About reissuing host ID-based certificates
- About Token Management for host ID-based certificates
- About the host ID-based certificate revocation list
- About revoking host ID-based certificates
- Host ID-based certificate deployment in a clustered setup
- About deployment of a host ID-based certificate on a clustered NetBackup host
- Migrating NetBackup CA
- Configuring data-in-transit encryption (DTE)
- Configure the DTE mode on a client
- Modify the DTE mode on a backup image
- How DTE configuration settings work in various NetBackup operations
- External CA and external certificates
- About external CA support in NetBackup
- Configuration options for external CA-signed certificates
- ECA_CERT_PATH for NetBackup servers and clients
- About certificate revocation lists for external CA
- About certificate enrollment
- Configuring an external certificate for the NetBackup web server
- About external certificate configuration for a clustered master server
- Regenerating keys and certificates
- NetBackup CA and NetBackup certificates
- Section III. Encryption of data at rest
- Data at rest encryption security
- About NetBackup client encryption
- Configuring standard encryption on clients
- About configuring standard encryption from the server
- Configuring legacy encryption on clients
- About configuring legacy encryption from the client
- About configuring legacy encryption from the server
- Additional legacy key file security for UNIX clients
- NetBackup key management service
- About FIPS enabled KMS
- Installing KMS
- Configuring KMS
- About key groups and key records
- Overview of key record states
- Configuring NetBackup to work with KMS
- About using KMS for encryption
- KMS database constituents
- Command line interface (CLI) commands
- About exporting and importing keys from the KMS database
- Troubleshooting KMS
- External key management service
- Configuring KMS credentials
- Configuring KMS
- Creating keys in an external KMS
- Working with multiple KMS servers
- Data at rest encryption security
- FIPS compliance in NetBackup
- NetBackup web services account
- Running NetBackup services with non-privileged user (service user) account
- Immutability and indelibility of data in NetBackup
- Backup anomaly detection
- Malware detection
- NetBackup Web UI Malware scanning workflow configuration
Viewing the detailed NetBackup audit report
You can view the actions NetBackup audits from a master server using the NetBackup web user interface or the NetBackup Administration Console. You can see full audit event details with the nbauditreport command or in NetBackup OpsCenter.
See the NetBackup OpsCenter Administrator's Guide for more details.
To view the full audit report
- Log on to the primary server.
- Enter the following command to display the audit report in the summary format.
Windows: install_path\NetBackup\bin\admincmd\nbauditreport
UNIX: /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd\nbauditreport
Or, run the command with the following options.
-sdate
<"MM/DD/YY [HH:[MM[:SS]]]">
The start date and time of the report data you want to view.
-edate
<"MM/DD/YY [HH:[MM[:SS]]]">
The end date and time of the report data you want to view.
-ctgy category
The category of user action that was performed. Categories such as POLICY may contain several sub-categories such as schedules or backup selections. Any modifications to a sub-category are listed as a modification to the primary category.
See the NetBackup Commands Guide for -ctgy options.
-user
<username[:domainname]>
Use to indicate the name of the user for whom you'd like to display audit information.
-fmt DETAIL
The -fmt DETAIL option displays a comprehensive list of audit information. For example, when a policy is changed, this view lists the name of the attribute, the old value, and the new value. This option has the following sub-options:
[-notruncate] . Display the old and new values of a changed attribute on separate lines in the details section of the report.
[-pagewidth <NNN>] . Set the page width for the details section of the report.
-fmt PARSABLE
The -fmt PARSABLE option displays the same set of information as the DETAIL report but in a parsable format. The report uses the pipe character (|) as the parsing token between the audit report data. This option has the following sub-options:
[-order <DTU|DUT|TDU|TUD|UDT|UTD>]. Indicate the order in which the information appears.
D (Description)
T (Timestamp)
U (User)
- The audit report contains the following details:
DESCRIPTION
The details of the action that was performed.
USER
The identity of the user who performed the action.
TIMESTAMP
The time that the action was performed.
The following information only displays if you use the -fmt DETAIL or the -fmt PARSABLE options.
CATEGORY
The category of user action that was performed.
ACTION
The action that was performed.
REASON
The reason that the action was performed. A reason displays if a reason was specified for the operation that created the change.
DETAILS
An account of all of the changes, listing the old values and the new values.
Example of the audit report:
[root@server1 admincmd]# ./nbauditreport TIMESTAMP USER DESCRIPTION 04/20/2018 11:52:43 root@server1 Policy 'test_pol_1' was saved but no changes were detected 04/20/2018 11:52:42 root@server1 Schedule 'full' was added to Policy 'test_pol_1' 04/20/2018 11:52:41 root@server1 Policy 'test_pol_1' was saved but no changes were detected 04/20/2018 11:52:08 root@server1 Policy 'test_pol_1' was created 04/20/2018 11:17:00 root@server1 Audit setting(s) of master server 'server1' were modified Audit records fetched: 5