NetBackup IT Analytics Certified Configuration Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup IT Analytics (11.3)
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      NetBackup IT Analytics Overview
    2.  
      Purpose of this document
    3.  
      Software and hardware disclaimer
  2. Portal and database servers
    1.  
      Portal supported operating systems
    2.  
      Recommended portal configurations
    3.  
      Oracle Database and Memory Requirements
    4. Supported browsers and display resolution
      1.  
        Linux portal server: Exported and emailed reports
    5.  
      Supported third-party and open source products
  3. Data Collector server configurations
    1.  
      Data Collector supported operating systems
    2. Data Collector server memory and CPU guidelines
      1.  
        Customize the Linux file handle setting for large collections
      2.  
        Factors impacting Data Collector performance and memory requirements
    3.  
      Data Collector prerequisites
    4.  
      Firewall configuration: Default ports
  4. Capacity Manager configurations
    1.  
      Supported systems and access requirements
    2.  
      IBM Arrays: Modify profile
    3.  
      Creating a NetApp user with API privileges
    4.  
      Creating a NetApp cluster-mode user with API privileges
    5. Array/LUN performance Data Collection
      1.  
        Port performance metrics
    6. EMC Isilon array performance metrics
      1.  
        EMC Isilon Array Performance
      2.  
        EMC Isilon Disk Performance
      3.  
        EMC Isilon Node Performance
      4.  
        EMC Isilon OneFS Performance
      5.  
        EMC Isilon Protocol Performance
    7. NetApp Cluster-Mode performance metrics
      1.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode Aggregate Performance
      2.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode CIFS Performance
      3.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode Disk Performance
      4.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode Fiber Channel Protocol Logical Interface Performance
      5.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode LUN Performance
      6.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode NFS Performance
      7.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode Processor Node Performance
      8.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode Processor Performance
      9.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode RAID Performance
      10.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode SMB (Server Message Block) Performance
      11.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode System Performance
      12.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode Target Port Performance
      13.  
        NetApp Cluster-Mode Volume Performance
    8. EMC Symmetrix enhanced performance metrics
      1.  
        Create enhanced EMC Symmetrix Performance report templates
      2.  
        EMC Symmetrix Array Performance
      3.  
        EMC Symmetrix Backend Director Performance
      4.  
        EMC Symmetrix Frontend Director Performance
      5.  
        EMC Symmetrix Front-end Port Performance
      6.  
        EMC Symmetrix Storage Group Performance
      7.  
        EMC Symmetrix Database Performance
      8.  
        EMC Symmetrix Disk Group Performance
      9.  
        EMC Symmetrix Disk Performance
      10.  
        EMC Symmetrix Device Groups Performance
      11.  
        EMC Symmetrix Disk by Technology Performance
      12.  
        EMC Symmetrix Storage Tier Performance
      13.  
        EMC Symmetrix Thin Tier Performance
      14.  
        EMC Symmetrix Thin Pool Performance
      15.  
        EMC Symmetrix Enhanced Performance metrics
    9.  
      Hitachi Vantara array performance metrics
    10.  
      Host resources prerequisites and configurations
    11. Host access privileges, sudo commands, ports, and WMI proxy requirements
      1.  
        Access requirements by OS
    12.  
      WMI proxy requirements for Windows host Data Collection
    13.  
      Host resources supported configurations
    14.  
      Pure Storage Flash Array performance metrics
    15.  
      Supported host bus adapters (HBAs)
    16.  
      Compute Resources supported configurations
  5. Cloud configurations
    1.  
      Supported systems and access requirements
  6. Virtualization Manager configurations
    1.  
      Supported versions
    2. Virtualization Manager Data Collector requirements for VMware
      1.  
        Creating a VMware Read-Only user
    3.  
      Virtualization Manager Data Collector requirements for Microsoft Hyper-V
  7. File Analytics configurations
    1. Data Collector probes by storage type
      1.  
        CIFS shares
      2.  
        Host inventory probe
      3.  
        File Analytics probe
  8. Fabric Manager configurations
    1. Switch vendors
      1.  
        Download Cisco Data Center Network Manager
  9. Backup Manager configurations
    1.  
      Backup solutions and versions
    2.  
      Centralized NetBackup Data Collection requirements
    3. Veritas NetBackup 8.1 (and later) requirements for centralized collection
      1.  
        Required Software
  10. ServiceNow configurations
    1.  
      ServiceNow configurations
  11. Internal TCP port requirements
    1.  
      Internal TCP port requirements
    2.  
      Internal portal server ports
    3.  
      Internal data collector ports

Supported systems and access requirements

For specific prerequisites and configuration requirements, see the Cloud Data Collector information.

Data Collectors require the following privileges to access APIs and underlying details:

  • On Linux, root privileges for SSH

  • On Windows, administrator privileges for WMI.

Table: Data Collection Prerequisites

Vendor

Subsystems

Dev Mgr/API/CLI

Access Requirements

Ports

Notes

Microsoft

  • Azure Virtual Machine

  • Azure Storage Account

  • Azure Billing

  • Azure Backup

REST API

Prerequisite: Install the Azure Powershell client on a Windows computer. Execute Microsoft Azure Powershell as an administrator.

  1. Find your Tenant ID and Azure Subscription ID

  2. Register a new Application

  3. Create a Principle and assign Contributor role to the application.

  4. Find your Azure Application ID, Offer ID Application Password.

443

The Data Collector only supports Azure resources deployed with the Resource Manager model.

Note:

A maximum of 105 subscriptions can be selected in a policy.

OpenStack

OpenStack Swift (Juno10, TBC), SwiftStack v2.2

  • Keystone v2

  • Proxy path for Swift configuration files must be specified.

  • Controller credentials that have access to tenants/projects.

  • Swift proxy server credentials with super-user privileges.

35357 for Keystone Admin

5000 for Keystone Public

22 for SSH

  • If multiple proxies exist, NetBackup IT Analytics uses only one. Capacity reports will reflect only one proxy.

  • Configure the policy to use the address of the actual proxy server, not the server responsible for load balancing.

  • Capacity data is collected from devices mapped to OpenStack nodes.

OpenStack

OpenStack Ceilometer

REST API

  • Keystone v2

  • Credentials that have admin access to tenants/projects.

35357 for Keystone Admin

5000 for Keystone Public

8777 for Ceilometer API Service

8774 for Compute

 

Google cloud platform

  • Virtual Machine Details - Secure and customizable compute service that lets you create and run virtual machines on Google's infrastructure.

  • Storage Buckets (Details and Usage) - Cloud Storage is a service for storing your objects in Google Cloud.

  • Billing Records - Usage and corresponding charges, by service.

REST API

  1. Create a billing data access role .

  2. Create an IAM service account user and create key.

  3. Enable billing account access.

  4. Enable billing export.

  5. Enable the cloud API's.

  6. Grant access of each project to the service account.

443

Data collector policy requires service account email and private key.