NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
- Introducing the NetBackup web user interface
- Monitoring and notifications
- Section I. Configuring hosts
- Section II. Configuring storage and backups
- Configuring storage
- Managing protection plans
- Managing classic policies
- Managing backup images
- Configuring storage
- Section III. Managing credentials
- Managing credentials for workloads and systems that NetBackup accesses
- Managing credentials for workloads and systems that NetBackup accesses
- Section IV. Managing security
- Security events and audit logs
- Managing security certificates
- Managing host mappings
- Managing user sessions
- Managing the security settings for the primary server
- About trusted primary servers
- Access keys
- Configuring authentication options
- Section V. Managing role-based access control
- About role-based access control in NetBackup
- Configuring RBAC roles
- Configuring RBAC
- Default RBAC roles
- Configuring RBAC
- RBAC permissions
- Global > NetBackup management
- Global > Security
- Global > Storage
- Assets
- Manage access
- Section VI. Managing detection and reporting
- Managing deployment
- Managing Resiliency Platforms
- NetBackup SaaS Protection
- NetBackup Flex Scale
- Managing Bare Metal Restore (BMR)
- Troubleshooting the NetBackup Web UI
NetBackup host IDs and host ID-based certificates
Each host in a NetBackup domain has a unique identity, which is referred to as a host ID or a Universally Unique Identifier (UUID). The host ID is used in many operations to identify the host. NetBackup creates and manages host IDs as follows:
Maintains a list on the primary server of all of the host IDs that have certificates.
Randomly generates host IDs. These IDs are not tied to any property of the hardware.
By default, assigns NetBackup 8.1 and later hosts a host ID-based certificate that is signed by the NetBackup certificate authority.
The host ID remains the same even when the host name changes.
In some cases a host can have multiple host IDs:
If a host obtains certificates from multiple NetBackup domains, it has multiple host IDs that correspond to each NetBackup domain.
When the primary server is configured as part of a cluster, each node in the cluster receives a unique host ID. An additional host ID is assigned for the virtual name. For example, if the primary server cluster is composed of N nodes, the number of host IDs that are allocated for the primary server cluster is N + 1.