NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
- Section I. About NetBackup
- Introducing NetBackup
- About NetBackup
- NetBackup documentation
- NetBackup web UI features
- NetBackup administration interfaces
- Terminology
- First-time sign in to the NetBackup web UI
- Sign in to the NetBackup web UI
- Sign out of the NetBackup web UI
- Documentation for catalog recovery, disk pools, disk array hosts, and host properties in the NetBackup web UI
- Administering NetBackup licenses
- Registering with Veritas Alta View
- Introducing NetBackup
- Section II. Monitoring and notifications
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- The NetBackup dashboard
- 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, copy, or delete a jobs filter
- Import or export job filters
- View the status of a redirected restore
- Troubleshooting the viewing and managing of jobs
- Device monitor
- Notifications
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- Section III. Configuring 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 CyberArk
- Configure external credentials
- Add a configuration for an external CMS server
- Edit or delete the configuration for an external CMS server
- Add a credential for Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP)
- Edit or delete Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) credentials in NetBackup
- Troubleshooting the external CMS server issue
- Managing deployment
- Section IV. Configuring storage
- Overview of storage options
- Configuring storage units
- Configuring disk storage
- About configuring BasicDisk storage
- About configuring disk pool storage
- Create a disk pool
- Editing a disk pool
- Create a Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP, MSDP Cloud) storage server
- Editing a storage server
- Integrating MSDP Cloud and CMS
- Create a Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) storage server for image sharing
- Create a AdvancedDisk, OpenStorage (OST), or Cloud Connector storage server
- Using image sharing from the NetBackup web UI
- Managing media servers
- Managing tape drives
- Change a drive comment
- About downed drives
- Change a drive operating mode
- Change a tape drive path
- Change the operating mode for a drive path
- Change tape drive properties
- Change a tape drive to a shared drive
- Clean a tape drive
- Delete a drive
- Reset a drive
- Reset the mount time of a drive
- Set the drive cleaning frequency
- View drive details
- Staging backups
- Troubleshooting storage configuration
- Section V. Configuring backups
- Overview of backups in the NetBackup web UI
- Managing protection plans
- Managing classic policies
- Protecting the NetBackup catalog
- About the NetBackup catalog
- Catalog backups
- The catalog backup process
- Prerequisites for backing up the NetBackup catalog
- Configuring catalog backups
- Backing up NetBackup catalogs manually
- Concurrently running catalog backups with other backups
- Catalog policy schedule considerations
- How catalog incrementals and standard backups interact on UNIX
- Determining whether or not a catalog backup succeeded
- Strategies that ensure successful NetBackup catalog backups
- Disaster recovery emails and the disaster recovery files
- Disaster recovery packages
- About disaster recovery settings
- Setting the passphrase to encrypt disaster recovery packages
- Recovering the catalog
- Managing backup images
- Pausing data protection activity
- Section VI. Managing security
- Security events and audit logs
- Managing security certificates
- Managing host mappings
- Configuring multi-person authorization
- About multi-person authorization
- Workflow to configure multi-person authorization for NetBackup operations
- RBAC roles and permissions for multi-person authorization
- Multi-person authorization process with respect to roles
- NetBackup operations that need multi-person authorization
- Configure multi-person authorization
- View multi-person authorization tickets
- Manage multi-person authorization tickets
- Add exempted users
- Schedule expiration and purging of multi-person authorization tickets
- Disable multi-person authorization
- Managing user sessions
- Configuring multi-factor authentication
- About multi-factor authentication
- Configure multi-factor authentication for your user account
- Disable multi-factor authentication for your user account
- Enforce multi-factor authentication for all users
- Configure multi-factor authentication for your user account when it is enforced in the domain
- Reset multi-factor authentication for a user
- Managing the global 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
- Disabling access to NetBackup interfaces for OS Administrators
- Section VII. Detection and reporting
- Section VIII. NetBackup workloads and NetBackup Flex Scale
- Section IX. Disaster recovery and troubleshooting
- Section X. Other topics
- Additional NetBackup catalog information
- About the NetBackup database
Setting the passphrase to encrypt disaster recovery packages
During each catalog backup, a disaster recovery package is created and encrypted with the passphrase that you set.
If you do not set a passphrase before you run a catalog backup, the following points apply:
NetBackup prevents you from configuring a new catalog backup policy.
If the catalog backup policy is upgraded from a previous version, catalog backups continue to fail until the passphrase is set.
Note:
Catalog backups may fail with status code 144 even though the passphrase is set. This situation occurs because the passphrase may be corrupted. To resolve this issue, you must reset the passphrase.
Caution:
Ensure that the passphrase contains only the supported characters. If you enter a character that is not supported, you may face problems during disaster recovery package restore. The passphrase may not be validated and you may not be able to restore the disaster recovery package.
Before you modify the passphrase, review the following information:
See Notes for modifying the passphrase for the disaster recovery packages.
To set or modify the passphrase (NetBackup web UI)
- Open the NetBackup web UI.
- At the top, click Settings > Global security.
- Click Disaster recovery.
- Enter and confirm the passphrase.
Review the following password rules:
The existing passphrase and the new passphrase must be different.
By default, the passphrase must contain a minimum of 8 and a maximum of 1024 characters.
You can set the passphrase constraints using the nbseccmd -setpassphraseconstraints command option.
Only the following characters are supported for the passphrase: White spaces, uppercase characters (A to Z), lowercase characters (a to z), numbers (0 to 9), and special characters. Special characters include: ~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ + - = ` { } [ ] | : ; ' , . / ? < > "
Caution:
If you enter a character that is not supported, you may face problems during disaster recovery package restore. The passphrase may not be validated and you may not be able to restore the disaster recovery package.
- Click Save. If the passphrase already exists, it is overwritten.
Before you modify the passphrase, review the following information:
See Notes for modifying the passphrase for the disaster recovery packages.
To set or modify the passphrase using the command-line interface
- The NetBackup administrator must be logged on to the NetBackup Web Management Service to perform this task. Use the following command to log on:
bpnbat -login -loginType WEB
- Run the following command to set a passphrase to encrypt disaster recovery packages:
nbseccmd -drpkgpassphrase
- Enter the passphrase.
If a passphrase already exists, it is overwritten.
Consider the following points before you modify the passphrase
Subsequent disaster recovery packages are encrypted with the new passphrase that you set.
If you change the passphrase anytime, it is not changed for the previous disaster recovery packages. Only new disaster recovery packages are associated with the new passphrase.
The passphrase that you provide when you install NetBackup on the primary server in a disaster recovery mode after a disaster must correspond to the disaster recovery package from which you want to recover the primary server host identity.