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NetBackup IT Analytics System Administrator Guide

Last Published: 2025-01-03

Product(s): NetBackup IT Analytics (11.4)

Introduction
1. NetBackup IT Analytics Overview
2. Purpose of this document
Preparing for updates
1. About upgrades and updates
2. Determine the data collector version
3. Data collector updates with an aptare.jar file
4. Manual download of the aptare.jar file
5. Portal updates
Backing up and restoring data
1. Best practices for disaster recovery
2. Oracle database backups
3. File system backups
4. Oracle database: Cold backup
5. Oracle database: Export backups
6. Scheduling the oracle database export
7. Oracle database: On demand backup
8. Restoring the NetBackup IT Analytics system
9. Import the Oracle database
10. Manual steps for database import / export using data pump
Monitoring NetBackup IT Analytics
1. Starting and stopping portal server software
2. Starting and stopping the reporting database
3. Starting and stopping data collectors
4. Monitoring tablespaces
Accessing NetBackup IT Analytics reports with the REST API
1. Overview
2. Authentication for REST APIs
3. Extracting data from tabular reports (with pagination)
4. Exporting reports
5. Exporting custom dashboards
Defining NetBackup estimated tape capacity
1. NetBackup estimated tape capacity overview
2. Estimated capacity notes
3. Updating the estimated capacity table
4. Listing volume pool IDs and media types
Automating host group management
1. About automating host group management
2. Task overview: managing host groups in bulk
3. Preparing to use PL/SQL utilities
4. General utilities
5. Categorize host operating systems by platform and version
  1. Use Regular Expressions to Override or Modify Default Host OS Categorization
  2. Host OS Categorization Default Settings
  3. Utility to Update Host OS Categorizations
  4. Categorize Host Operating Systems On Demand
6. Identifying a host group ID
7. Move or copy clients
8. Organize clients by attribute
9. Move host group
10. Delete host group
11. Move hosts and remove host groups
12. Organize clients into groups by backup server
13. Merge duplicate backup clients
14. Bulk load utilities
  1. Load host aliases
  2. Load details of new hosts or update existing hosts
  3. Load relationships between hosts and host group
    1. Sample Audit File (output from load_package.loadGroupMemberFile)
15. Veritas NetBackup utilities
16. Automate NetBackup utilities
  1. Scheduling a NetBackup Utility Job to Run Automatically
17. Organize clients into groups by management server
18. Set up an inactive clients group
19. Set up a host group for clients in inactive policies
20. Set up clients by policy
21. Set up clients by policy type
22. IBM Tivoli storage manager utilities
23. Set up clients by policy domain
24. Set up clients by IBM Tivoli storage manager instance
25. Scheduling utilities to run automatically
  1. Sample .sql file (setup_ora_job.sql) to set up an automatic job
Attribute management
1. Attribute bulk load utilities
2. Attribute naming rules
3. Rename attributes before upgrading
4. Load host attributes and values
5. Load attributes and values and assign to hosts
6. Load array attributes and values and assign to arrays
7. Overview of application attributes and values
8. Load application database attributes and values
9. Load MS Exchange organization attributes and values
10. Load LUN attributes and values
11. Load switch attributes and values
12. Load port attributes and values
13. Load Subscription attributes and values
Importing generic backup data
1. About generic backup data collection
  1. Considerations
2. Configuring generic backup data collection
3. CSV Format Specification
  1. EXAMPLE: genericBackupJobs.csv
4. Manually loading the CSV file
Backup job overrides
1. Overview
2. Configure a backup job override
Managing host data collection
1. Identifying hosts by WWN to avoid duplicates
2. Setting a host's priority
3. Determining host ranking
4. Loading host and WWN relationships
5. Loading the host HBA port data
6. Create a CSV file
7. Execute the script
System configuration in the Portal
1. System configuration in the Portal
2. System configuration: functions
3. Navigation overview
4. System configuration parameter descriptions: Additional info
5. Anomaly detection
6. Data collection: Capacity chargeback
7. Database administration: database
8. Host discovery: EMC Avamar
9. Host discovery: Host
10. Events captured for audit
11. Custom parameters
Performance profile schedule customization
1. Overview
2. Customize the performance profile schedule
LDAP and SSO authentication for Portal access
1. Overview
2. Configure AD/LDAP
3. Configure single sign-on (SSO)
Change Oracle database user passwords
1. Overview
2. Database connection properties
3. Modify the Oracle database user passwords
4. Modify the Oracle database user passwords for split architecture
5. Determine if Oracle is using the default login password
Integrate with CyberArk
1. Introduction
2. CyberArk setup prerequisites
3. Setting up the portal to integrate with CyberArk
Tuning NetBackup IT Analytics
1. Before you begin tuning
2. Tuning the portal database
3. Performance recommendations
4. Reclaiming free space from Oracle
5. Portal / Data receiver Java memory settings
Working with log files
1. About debugging NetBackup IT Analytics
2. Turn on debugging
3. Database logging
4. Portal and data collector log files - reduce logging
  1. Portal Log Files
  2. Data Collector Log Files
5. Database SCON logging - reduce logging
6. Refreshing the database SCON log
7. Logging user activity in audit.log
8. Logging only what a user deletes
9. Logging all user activity
10. Data collector log files
11. Data collector log file organization
12. Data collector log file naming conventions
13. General data collector log files
14. Find the event / meta collector ID
15. Portal log files
  1. Managing Apache Log Files
16. Database log files
17. Installation / Upgrade log files
Defining report metrics
1. Changing backup success percentage
2. Changing job status
SNMP trap alerting
1. Overview
2. SNMP configurations
3. Standard OIDs
4. Data in an alerting trap
  1. Example of policy based alert
SSL certificate configuration
1. SSL certificate configuration
2. SSL implementation overview
3. Obtain an SSL certificate
4. Update the web server configuration to enable SSL
5. Configure virtual hosts for portal and / or data collection SSL
6. Enable / Disable SSL for a Data Collector
7. Enable / Disable SSL for emailed reports
8. Test and troubleshoot SSL configurations
9. Create a self-signed SSL certificate
10. Configure the Data Collector to trust the certificate
11. Keystore file locations on the Data Collector server
12. Import a certificate into the Data Collector Java keystore
13. Keystore on the portal server
14. Add a virtual interface to a Linux server
15. Add a virtual / secondary IP address on Windows
Portal properties: Format and portal customizations
1. Introduction
2. Configuring global default inventory object selection
3. Restricting user IDs to single sessions
4. Customizing date format in the report scope selector
5. Customizing the maximum number of lines for exported reports
6. Customizing the total label display in tabular reports
7. Customizing the host management page size
8. Customizing the path and directory for file analytics database
9. Configuring badge expiration
10. Configuring the maximum cache size in memory
11. Configuring the cache time for reports
12. Configuring LDAP to use active directory (AD) for user group privileges
Data retention periods for SDK database objects
1. Data retention periods for SDK database objects
2. Data aggregation
  1. Pre-requisites
  2. Data aggregation and retention levels
3. Find the domain ID and database table names
4. Retention period update for SDK user-defined objects example
5. SDK user-defined database objects
6. Capacity: default retention for basic database tables
7. Capacity: default retention for EMC Symmetrix enhanced performance
8. Capacity: Default retention for EMC XtremIO
9. Capacity: Default retention for Dell EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS)
10. Capacity: Default retention for Windows file server
11. Capacity: Default retention for Pure Storage FlashArray
12. Cloud: Default retention for Amazon Web Services (AWS)
13. Cloud: Default retention for Microsoft Azure
14. Cloud: Default retention for OpenStack Ceilometer
15. Configure multi-tenancy data purging retention periods
Troubleshooting
1. Troubleshooting user login problems
2. Forgotten password procedure
3. Login issues
4. Connectivity issues
5. Data Collector and database issues
6. Portal upgrade performance issues
Appendix A. Kerberos based proxy user's authentication in Oracle
1. Overview
  1. Pre-requisite
2. Exporting service and user principal's to keytab file on KDC
3. Modifications for Oracle
4. Modifications for Portal
Appendix B. Configure TLS-enabled Oracle database on NetBackup IT Analytics Portal and data receiver
1. About Transport Layer Security (TLS)
2. TLS in Oracle environment
3. Configure TLS in Oracle with NetBackup IT Analytics on Linux in split architecture
4. Configure TLS in Oracle with NetBackup IT Analytics on Linux in non-split architecture
5. Configure TLS in Oracle with NetBackup IT Analytics on Windows in split architecture
6. Configure TLS in Oracle with NetBackup IT Analytics on Windows in non-split architecture
7. Configure TLS in user environment
Appendix C. NetBackup IT Analytics for NetBackup on Kubernetes and appliances
1. Configure embedded NetBackup IT Analytics Data collector for NetBackup deployment on appliances (including Flex appliances)
2. Configure NetBackup IT Analytics for NetBackup deployment on Kubernetes

Load application database attributes and values

Function: The Load Application Database Attributes utility provides an efficient method of assigning attributes to a large number of application databases.

Take the following steps to load application database attributes and values:

Create a CSV File of Application Database Objects and Attributes.
Execute the Load Application Database Attribute Utility.
Verify the Application Database Attributes Load.
Create a report template using the SQL Template Designer.
Once attribute values are assigned to application databases, a SQL Template Designer report can query the database to report on the application databases.

Create a CSV File of Application Database Objects and Attributes

The LoadDBAttribute utility assigns application attribute values to a host's database application. This utility takes as input a comma-separated values (CSV) file.

Note:

This CSV file becomes the primary document of record for Application Database Attributes and therefore should be preserved in a working directory for future updates.

Create a spreadsheet table, in the format shown in the following example, and save it as a CSV file in a working directory. This file is specific to application databases.

In the above example:

The first 3 columns comprise the unique identifier for an Application Database--in this example, CorpServer1, FinanceDB, and FinanceDBInstance.
Subsequent columns list the attributes and values.

Columns

Columns list the objects that uniquely identify an application. For an Application Database, the required columns are: Host Name, DB Name, DB Instance.
Each additional column lists attributes and values.

Rows

First (Header) Row - Contains the fields that uniquely identify an application, followed by the attribute names. The header row is information only and is not processed as a data row.
Subsequent rows list the objects that uniquely identify an application database, followed by the attribute values that you are assigning to each application database.

Execute the Load Application Database Attribute Utility

Before You Begin

Bulk Load utilities must be run in SQLPLUS as user APTARE. The load_package utility is located in:

/opt/aptare/database/stored_procedures (Linux)
\opt\oracle\database\stored_procedures (Windows)

To assign attributes to application databases

Create a table in a spreadsheet.
Save the table as a comma-separated file (for example, DBAttributes.csv).
Log in to the Portal server.
At the command line:
```
su - aptare
```

At the command line, launch sqlplus:

sqlplus <pwd>/<pwd>@//localhost:1521/scdb

Example: sqlplus portal/portal@//localhost:1521/scdb

Execute the following at the SQL prompt:

SQL> Execute load_package.loadDBAttributeFile
('pathname_and_filename','domain_name',
db_name_column_num,db_instance_column_num,host_name_column_num,
'log_path_name','log_file_name','check_valid_value');

Where:

'pathname_and_filename'	Full path + filename (enclosed in single straight quotes) of the CSV file Windows Example: 'c:\config\DBAttributes.csv' Linux Example: '/config/DBAttributes.csv'
'domain_name'	Name (enclosed in single straight quotes) of the domain in which the host groups and hosts reside; Example: '`DomainEMEA`'
db_name_column_num	Column number in the csv file where the DB Name is listed; Example: `2`
db_instance_column_num	Column number in the csv file where the DB Instance is listed; Example: `3`
host_name_column_num	Column number in the csv file where the Host Name is listed; Example: `1`
'log_path_name'	Full path (enclosed in single straight quotes) where the log file will be created/updated; verify that you have write access to this directory. Optional: If a log path and filename are not specified, log records are written to scon.log and scon.err. To omit this parameter, enter: '' Example: 'c:\configs'
'log_file_name'	Log file name enclosed in single straight quotes. Optional: If a log path and filename are not specified, entries are written to scon.log and scon.err. To omit this parameter, enter: '' Example: '`DBAttributes.log`'
'check_valid_value'	'Y' or 'N' enclosed in single straight quotes. Y - Checks if the attribute value exists. If the utility determines that the attribute value is not valid, it skips this row and does not assign the attribute value to the application database. N - Updates without checking that the attribute value exists. This option is seldom chosen, but it is available for certain customer environments where attributes may have been created without values (with scripts that bypass the user interface).

Example:

SQL> Execute load_package.loadDBAttributeFile('/config/DBAttributes.csv', 'DomainEMEA', 2, 3, 1,'/config/logs','DBAttributes.log','Y');

Check the log file for status and errors.
Restart the Portal services so that the newly added attributes become available in the Dynamic Template Designer.

Verify the Application Database Attributes Load

To verify that the attribute load took effect:

In the Portal, go to Reports.
Select a blue user folder.
Select New SQL Template.
With the SQL Template Designer open, click the Query tab.
Enter the following query in the SQL Template Designer to verify Application Database attributes:
```
select * from aps_v_database_attribute
```