NetBackup™ Snapshot Manager for Cloud Install and Upgrade Guide
- Introduction
- Section I. NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Cloud installation and configuration
- Preparing for NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Cloud installation
- Deploying NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Cloud using container images
- Deploying NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Cloud extensions
- Installing the NetBackup Snapshot Manager extension on a VM
- Installing the NetBackup Snapshot Manager extension on a managed Kubernetes cluster (AKS) in Azure
- Installing the NetBackup Snapshot Manager extension on a managed Kubernetes cluster (EKS) in AWS
- Installing the NetBackup Snapshot Manager extension on a managed Kubernetes cluster (GKE) in GCP
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager for cloud providers
- AWS plug-in configuration notes
- Google Cloud Platform plug-in configuration notes
- Prerequisites for configuring the GCP plug-in using Credential and Service Account option
- Microsoft Azure plug-in configuration notes
- Microsoft Azure Stack Hub plug-in configuration notes
- OCI plug-in configuration notes
- Configuration for protecting assets on cloud hosts/VM
- Protecting assets with NetBackup Snapshot Manager's on-host agent feature
- Installing and configuring NetBackup Snapshot Manager agent
- Configuring the NetBackup Snapshot Manager application plug-in
- Microsoft SQL plug-in
- Oracle plug-in
- Protecting assets with NetBackup Snapshot Manager's agentless feature
- Snapshot Manager for cloud catalog backup and recovery
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager for cloud assets protection
- Volume encryption in NetBackup Snapshot Manager for cloud
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Cloud security
- Preparing for NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Cloud installation
- Section II. NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Cloud maintenance
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Cloud logging
- Upgrading NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Cloud
- Migrating and upgrading NetBackup Snapshot Manager
- Post-upgrade tasks
- Uninstalling NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Cloud
- Troubleshooting NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Cloud
About NetBackup Snapshot Manager logging mechanism
NetBackup Snapshot Manager uses the Fluentd-based logging framework for log data collection and consolidation. Fluentd is an open source data collector that provides a unified logging layer for structured log data collection and consumption.
For more information on Fluentd, refer to the Fluentd website.
All the NetBackup Snapshot Manager container services generate and publish service logs to the configured Docker logging driver. The logging driver is the fluentd framework that is running as a separate flexsnap-fluentd
container on the NetBackup Snapshot Manager host. With the Fluentd framework, these individual service logs are now structured and routed to the Fluentd data collector from where they are sent to the configured output plug-ins. The flexsnap-fluentd container log is the output plug-in that is configured by default.
Using Fluentd-based logging provides several benefits including the following:
A persistent structured repository that stores the logs of all the NetBackup Snapshot Manager services
A single stream of all NetBackup Snapshot Manager logs (vs disparate individual log files) makes it easy to trail and monitor specific logs
Metadata associated with the logs allow for a federated search that speeds up troubleshooting
Ability to integrate and push NetBackup Snapshot Manager logs to a third-party tool for analytics and automation