Veritas NetBackup™ Security and Encryption Guide
- Increasing NetBackup security
- Security deployment models
- Port security
- About NetBackup daemons, ports, and communication
- Additional port information for products that interoperate with NetBackup
- About configuring ports
- Auditing NetBackup operations
- About Enhanced Auditing
- Access control security
- 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
- About AD and LDAP domains
- NetBackup CA and NetBackup certificates
- About the Security Management utilities
- About audit events
- 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
- External CA support in NetBackup
- 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
- About API keys in NetBackup
- 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
- Data at rest key management
- About the Key Management Service (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 KMS support in NetBackup
- Configuring KMS credentials
- Configuring KMS
- Creating keys in an external KMS
- Working with multiple KMS servers
- Regenerating keys and certificates
- NetBackup web services account
Configuring the master server to use an external CA-signed certificate
A NetBackup host ID-based certificate is deployed on the master server during installation or upgrade. You can configure the master server to use an external CA-signed certificate after installation. It includes:
Defining the external certificate configuration options
See Configuration options for external CA-signed certificates.
Enrolling the external certificate for the master server host
The enrolled certificate is used for communication between the host and the master server domain that is listed in the SERVER configuration option on the host.
See Viewing external CA-signed certificates in the NetBackup web UI.
See Configuring an external certificate for a clustered master server.
Ensure that the NetBackup domain is enabled to use external CA-signed certificates by configuring the NetBackup web server.
See Configuring an external certificate for the NetBackup web server.
External certificates for the NetBackup web server and the master server must be issued by the same root certificate authority.
If the two certificate authorities do not match, communication between the NetBackup Administration Console and the NetBackup Web Management Console service (nbwmc service) fails.
Ensure that the certificate revocation lists (CRLs) for the external CA are stored at the required location.
If CRL distribution point (CDP) is used, ensure that the URLs that are specified in the CDP are accessible.
To configure the master server to use an external certificate
- Update the NetBackup configuration file (
bp.conf
file on UNIX or Windows registry) on the master server with the external certificate-specific parameters.See Configuration options for external CA-signed certificates.
For Windows certificate store
Use the nbsetconfig command to configure the following parameters:
ECA_CERT_PATH
ECA_CRL_CHECK (optional)
ECA_CRL_PATH (optional)
ECA_CRL_PATH_SYNC_HOURS (optional)
ECA_CRL_REFRESH_HOURS (optional)
ECA_DR_BKUP_WIN_CERT_STORE (optional)
For file-based certificates
Use the nbsetconfig command to configure the following parameters:
ECA_CERT_PATH
ECA_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH
ECA_TRUST_STORE_PATH
ECA_KEY_PASSPHRASEFILE (optional)
ECA_CRL_CHECK (optional)
ECA_CRL_PATH (optional)
ECA_CRL_PATH_SYNC_HOURS (optional)
ECA_CRL_REFRESH_HOURS (optional)
Note:
If you have a Flex Appliance application instance, the certificate files must be stored in the following directories on the instance:
ECA_CERT_PATH, ECA_PRIVATE_KEY PATH, and ECA_TRUST_STORE_PATH:
/mnt/nbdata/hostcert/
ECA_CRL_PATH:
/mnt/nbdata/hostcert/crl
- Run the following command on the master server to enroll an external certificate with the master server domain that is defined in the SERVER option:
nbcertcmd -enrollCertificate
For more details on the command, refer to the NetBackup Commands Reference Guide.