Veritas NetBackup™ Flex Scale Administrator's Guide
- Product overview
- Viewing information about the NetBackup Flex Scale cluster environment
- NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure management
- User management
- Directory services and certificate management
- Region settings management
- About NetBackup Flex Scale storage
- Node and disk management
- License management
- NetBackup Flex Scale network management
- About network management
- Modifying DNS settings
- About bonding Ethernet interfaces
- Bonding operations
- Data network configurations
- NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure monitoring
- Resiliency in NetBackup Flex Scale
- Site-based disaster recovery in NetBackup Flex Scale
- NetBackup Flex Scale security
- Troubleshooting
- Appendix A. Configuring NetBackup optimized duplication
- Appendix B. Disaster recovery terminologies
User management
NetBackup Flex Scale enables you to add users for administering your appliance. You can add local users as well as users from an Active Directory (AD) server and an Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server. Registering remote users lets you leverage your existing directory service for user management and authentication. Each user account must authenticate itself with a user name and password to access the appliance. For a local user, the user name and password are managed on the appliance. For a registered remote user, the user name and password are managed by the remote directory service.
NetBackup Flex Scale provides the following types of users:
Table: NetBackup Flex Scale users
User role / user | Description |
|---|---|
Appliance Administrator (user role) | The Appliance Administrator user role is the primary admin user for the NetBackup Flex Scale appliance and has the privileges to manage and monitor all the infrastructure components in the cluster. This user role can perform tasks such as managing the cluster nodes, the cluster settings, storage and networking. This user role can also monitor the alerts and notifications related to the infrastructure components and the cluster operations. |
NetBackup Administrator (user role) | The NetBackup Administrator user role has the permissions to manage and monitor all the NetBackup services and backup operations in the cluster. This user role can perform tasks such as NetBackup protection policy management, scheduling of backup and restore jobs, and managing NetBackup operations. |
(user) | In addition to the user roles specified earlier, NetBackup Flex Scale also provides a built-in user account that has administrative access to the operating system root on the nodes. This user is automatically created during the cluster configuration. To use this account, you must first log on to the node using the infrastructure admin role and then access the OS root by typing the maintenance user password. The maintenance account is used by Veritas Support through the appliance Shell Menu (after an administrative log-on). This account is used specifically to perform maintenance activity or to troubleshoot the appliance. Unlike the other types of users, this user is a single user account and is not a user role. The maintenance user account details are as follows:
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See Considerations for managing NetBackup Flex Scale users.
See Adding users.
See Removing users.
For details about security features, see the Veritas NetBackup™ Security and Encryption Guide.