NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
- Introducing the NetBackup web user interface
- Monitoring and notifications
- The NetBackup dashboard
- About the 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 or delete a jobs filter
- Troubleshooting the viewing of jobs
- Job notifications
- NetBackup event notifications
- Section I. Managing hosts
- Managing host properties
- Managing credentials for workloads and systems that NetBackup accesses
- Overview of credential management in NetBackup
- Add a credential in NetBackup
- Add a credential for an external KMS
- Add a credential for NetBackup Callhome Proxy
- Edit or delete a named credential
- Add a credential for Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP)
- Edit or delete Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) credentials in NetBackup
- Managing deployment
- Section II. Configuring storage and backups
- Configuring storage
- About storage configuration
- Create a Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) storage server
- Create a Cloud storage, OpenStorage, or AdvancedDisk storage server
- Create a disk pool
- Create a storage unit
- Create a universal share
- Create a Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) storage server for image sharing
- Using image sharing from the NetBackup web UI
- Troubleshooting storage configuration
- Troubleshooting universal share configuration issues
- Using instant access for MS-Windows and Standard policies
- Overview of backups in the web UI
- Managing protection plans
- Managing classic policies
- Managing backup images
- Pausing data protection activity
- Configuring storage
- Section III. Managing security
- Security events and audit logs
- Managing security certificates
- Managing host mappings
- Managing user sessions
- Managing the security settings for the primary server
- 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
- About trusted primary servers
- Using access keys, API keys, and access codes
- Configuring authentication options
- Managing role-based access control
- RBAC features
- Authorized users
- Configuring RBAC
- Notes for using NetBackup RBAC
- Add AD or LDAP domains
- View users in RBAC
- Add a user to a role (non-SAML)
- Add a smart card user to a role (non-SAML, without AD/LDAP)
- Add a user to a role (SAML)
- Remove a user from a role
- Disable web UI access for operating system (OS) administrators
- Disable command-line (CLI) access for operating system (OS) administrators
- Default RBAC roles
- Add a custom RBAC role
- Role permissions
- Manage access permission
- View access definitions
- Section IV. Detection and reporting
- Detecting malware
- About malware detection
- Configure a new scan host pool
- Add an existing scan host
- Manage credentials
- Remove the scan host
- Deactivate the scan host
- Scan a policy client backup images for malware
- Perform malware scanning
- Scan a VMware asset for malware
- View the malware scan status
- Actions for malware scanned images
- Recover from malware-affected images (clients protected by policies)
- Recover a VMware asset affected by malware
- Troubleshooting
- Detecting anomalies
- Usage reporting and capacity licensing
- Detecting malware
- Section V. NetBackup workloads and NetBackup Flex Scale
- Section VI. Disaster recovery and troubleshooting
About the NetBackup web UI
The NetBackup web user interface provides the following features:
Ability to access the primary server from a web browser, including Chrome and Firefox. For details on supported browsers for the web UI, see the NetBackup Software Compatibility List.
Note that the NetBackup web UI may behave differently for different browsers. Some functionality, for example a date picker, may not be available on all browsers. These inconsistencies are due to the capabilities of the browser and not because of a limitation with NetBackup.
A dashboard that displays a quick overview of the information that is important to you.
Role-based access control (RBAC) that lets the administrator configure user access to NetBackup and to delegate the tasks such as security, storage management, or workload protection.
Management of NetBackup security settings, certificates, API keys, and user sessions.
Management of NetBackup host properties.
Data protection is achieved through protection plans or policies. (Policy support is limited at this time. Additional policy types will be added in future releases.)
Detection and reporting features provide for the detection of malware and anomalies and provide usage reporting to track the size of backup data on your primary servers. You can also easily connect to Veritas Net Insights Console to view and manage NetBackup licensing.
Note:
The NetBackup web UI is best viewed at a 1280x1024 or higher screen resolution.
NetBackup uses role-based access control to grant access to the web UI. Access control is accomplished through roles.
A role defines the operations that a user can perform and the access that the user has to any workload assets, protection plans, or credentials. A user can have multiple roles, which allows for full and for flexible customization of user access.
RBAC is only available for the web UI and the APIs.
Other access control methods for NetBackup are not supported for the web UI and APIs, with the exception of Enhanced Auditing (EA).
The NetBackup web UI lets administrators more easily monitor NetBackup operations and events and identify any issues that need attention.
The dashboard displays an overview of NetBackup operations and security information. This information includes jobs, certificates, tokens, security events, malware and anomaly detection, and usage reporting.
The dashboard widgets that display depend on a user's RBAC role and permissions.
Email notifications can be configured so administrators receive notifications when job failures occur. NetBackup supports any ticketing system that can receive inbound email.
Data protection with protection plans is fully managed with role-based access control (RBAC). The NetBackup administrator can manage which users can view and manage assets and can perform backups and restores. Each default workload administrator role (for example, Default VMware Administrator) allows a user access to protection plans, jobs, and credentials.
Protection plans offer the following benefits:
A workload administrator can create and manage protection plans, including the backup schedules and storage that is used. This administrator selects the protection plans that protect assets.
See Role permissions.
In addition to schedules for backups, a protection plan can also include a schedule for replication and long-term retention.
When you select from your available storage, you can see any additional features available for that storage.
Users with a workload administrator role can create protection plans, manage credentials, subscribe assets to the protection plans that meet the SLO, and monitor protection status.
The web UI supports protection plans for the following workloads.
Apache Cassandra
Cloud
Cloud object store
Kubernetes
Microsoft SQL Server
MySQL
Nutanix AHV
OpenStack
Oracle
PostgreSQL
Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)
SaaS
VMware
NetBackup classic policies are available for the Administrator that wants to continue to use policies for data protection.
See Support for NetBackup classic policies.
Administrators can perform server-directed restores from the web UI. This type of restore is available for all policy types.
The workload administrator can perform self-service recovery of VMs, databases, or other asset types. This type of recovery is available for the assets that are protected with recovery points.
For the workloads that support the instant access feature, users can mount a snapshot for immediate access to a VM's files or to a database.