NetBackup™ Self Service Configuration Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (10.2)
  1. Configuring a Self Service solution
    1.  
      About configuring a Self Service solution
    2.  
      Self Service scheduled backup
    3.  
      Configuration checklist
  2. Configuring a NetBackup primary server
    1.  
      About configuring the NetBackup primary server
    2.  
      Enabling communication with a Windows NetBackup primary server
    3.  
      Enabling communication with a UNIX NetBackup primary server
    4.  
      Enabling communication with a NetBackup appliance
    5.  
      Enabling communication with a NetBackup primary server using the REST API
    6.  
      Creating NetBackup Template Policies
  3. Configuring Self Service
    1.  
      About Self Service configuration
    2.  
      Configuring backup servers
    3.  
      Configuring protection
    4.  
      Configuring storage
    5.  
      Configuring the Backup Now form
    6.  
      Configuring tenants
    7.  
      Access rights
    8.  
      Registering computers
    9. Configuring the home page
      1.  
        Home page integration settings
  4. Customizing Self Service
    1.  
      Language settings
    2.  
      Creating or customizing a request form
    3.  
      Themes
    4.  
      Notices
  5. User authentication methods
    1.  
      About user authentication methods
    2.  
      Forms based authentication
    3.  
      Windows Authentication
    4.  
      Active Directory Import
    5.  
      Configuring Self Service to use Federated Single Sign-On
  6. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      About troubleshooting
    2.  
      Where to find troubleshooting information
    3.  
      Impersonation of a tenant user
    4.  
      Issues with Remote PowerShell to Windows primary servers
    5.  
      Issues with HTTPS configuration
  7. Appendix A. NetBackup policy types
    1.  
      List of NetBackup policy types
  8. Appendix B. Dashboard traffic light status and usage
    1.  
      About dashboard traffic light status and usage
    2.  
      Assets with a protection type
    3.  
      Assets without a Protection Type
    4.  
      Usage and Charging
    5.  
      Tenant Quota Enforcement
  9. Appendix C. Synchronizing data from NetBackup
    1.  
      About synchronizing data from NetBackup
  10. Appendix D. NetBackup Self Service data caching process
    1.  
      About NetBackup Self Service data caching process
    2.  
      NetBackup Data Synchronization
    3.  
      Backup Now
    4.  
      Protect
    5.  
      Unprotect
  11. Appendix E. Integration settings
    1.  
      About integration settings
    2.  
      NetBackup Adapter
    3.  
      NetBackup Adapter Usage
    4.  
      NetBackup Adapter Access Rights
    5.  
      Action Request Types
    6.  
      vCloud Director import
  12. Appendix F. REST API
    1.  
      About the REST API
  13. Appendix G. Glossary
    1.  
      Glossary

NetBackup Adapter

This section holds the settings which affect the whole of the solution. There should be only one of these sections.

Table: NetBackup Adapter settings

Setting

Tenant Override

Details

Report Customer Root

Yes

The path of a folder on the web server where this tenant's reports are stored.

Report File Extensions

No

A semicolon-separated list of file extensions can be specified.

Contracted Space (TB)

Yes

The total amount of space, in terabytes, agreed for use.

Optional value; if set, typically configured at tenant level

Quota enforcement

Yes

This setting toggles the tracking of space usage at tenant level. It helps to enforce the contracted space that every tenant is given with values set in Contracted Space (TB).

By default this setting is disabled. To enable quota enforcement, this option must be enabled for each tenant.

Usage Retention Period (months)

No

The number of months the historical rolled up data is retained for display in the home page Usage graph and table.

Panels URL

No

The URL of the NetBackup Adapter Panels, the installer sets this value initially.

Services URL

No

The URL of the NetBackup Adapter web services. The installer sets this value initially.

Image Import Batch Processing (minutes)

No

The computer image load retrieves images for a period of time while there are computers marked for synchronization. This defaults to 5 minutes.

Image Import Lock Delay (minutes)

No

This setting determines how long to lock a computer synchronization for a computer if an error occurs during image retrieval. The default is 60 minutes.

Send Usage Email

No

An email detailing system usage is sent on the 1st of each month. If you do not want this email to be sent, set the setting to No.

Show Traffic Lights Tiles

Yes

This setting determines whether traffic lights are displayed on the home page.

Show Consumption Total Tile

Yes

This setting determines whether the total usage is displayed on the home page.

Show Consumption Trend Tile

Yes

This setting determines whether the usage trend graphs are displayed on the home page.

ESX Host Selection Algorithm

Yes

This setting has three options: Random Match, Best Match, and First Match. The default is Random Match. This option is used when NetBackup Self Service tries to restore a VCD VM from one vApp to another if the source vApp and the destination one are on different Organization vDCs.

Allowed values for this setting are:

Random Match:

  • Randomly choose an ESX host A from all available ones.

  • For host A, randomly choose a resource pool.

  • For host A, choose the datastore with the maximum free space.

First Match:

  • Choose the first available ESX host A.

  • For host A, randomly choose a resource pool.

  • For host A, choose the datastore with the maximum free space.

Best Match:

  • Choose the ESX host A which is attached to the datastore with the maximum free space.

  • For host A, randomly choose a resource pool.

  • For host A, choose the datastore with the maximum free space.