Veritas NetBackup™ Flex Scale Administrator's Guide

You can add up to 10 user accounts to the NetBackup Flex Scale cluster. You must add at least one user for each user role during the cluster configuration. You can add additional users at any time after the cluster is configured.

You can also add users without assigning a role. You can assign the required role to such user accounts later.

You can use a single user account and assign both NetBackup Flex Scale and NetBackup administrator roles to the same account. However, two separate user accounts are recommended.

You can assign the NetBackup admin role to a user account only during the cluster configuration. After the cluster is configured, you must use the NetBackup Web UI to manage NetBackup admin role assignment to user accounts.

You cannot use the NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure UI console to manage NetBackup roles post cluster configuration.

Veritas recommends that you use the NetBackup Web UI to manage assignment of NetBackup roles. Use the NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure UI console to manage assignment of NetBackup Flex Scale roles.

You can add local as well as AD and LDAP user accounts to the user roles.

NetBackup Flex Scale supports AD and LDAP in Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Non-SSL mode.

If the cluster is configured for disaster recovery (DR), then ensure that you manually add the users to the secondary cluster in the same order as they are in the primary cluster.

AD and LDAP users cannot access the appliance CLISH and REST APIs.

Only local users that have the NetBackup Flex Scale appliance administrator role assigned have access to CLISH and the infrastructure REST APIs. Users that have the NetBackup administrator role assigned have access to the NetBackup REST APIs.

While removing user accounts from the cluster, you cannot delete all the users from the users list. At least one user with either the NetBackup Administrator or the NetBackup Flex Scale Appliance Administrator role always remains in the users list.