NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
- Introducing the NetBackup web user interface
- Monitoring NetBackup
- Notifications
- Section I. Managing role-based access control
- About role-based access control in NetBackup
- Configuring RBAC roles
- Configuring RBAC
- Default RBAC roles
- Administrator
- Default AHV Administrator
- Default Cloud Administrator
- Default Kubernetes Administrator
- Default NetBackup Kubernetes Operator Service
- Default RHV Administrator
- Default Resiliency Administrator
- Default Microsoft SQL Server Administrator
- Default Security Administrator
- Default Storage Administrator
- Default VMware Administrator
- RBAC permissions
- About role permissions
- Global > NetBackup management
- NetBackup Web Management Console Administration
- Access hosts
- Agentless hosts
- Anomalies
- Data classifications
- Email notifications
- Event logs
- NetBackup hosts
- Image sharing
- NetBackup backup images
- Jobs
- Licensing
- Media server
- Remote primary server certificate authority
- Resiliency
- Resource limits
- Retention levels
- Servers > Trusted primary servers
- Cloud providers
- CloudPoint servers
- WebSocket servers
- Global > Protection
- Global > Security
- Global > Storage
- Assets
- Protection plans
- Credentials
- Manage access
- Section II. Managing security
- Security events and audit logs
- Managing security certificates
- Managing user sessions
- Managing master server security settings
- Certificate authority for secure communication
- Disable communication with NetBackup 8.0 and earlier hosts
- Disable automatic mapping of NetBackup host names
- About NetBackup certificate deployment security levels
- Select a security level for NetBackup certificate deployment
- Set a passphrase for disaster recovery
- About trusted primary servers
- Creating and managing API keys for users (Administrators)
- Adding and managing your API key (Users)
- Configuring authentication options
- Managing hosts
- Section III. Managing storage and backups
- Configuring storage
- About storage configuration
- Create a Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) storage server
- Create a Cloud storage, OpenStorage, or AdvancedDisk storage server
- Create a disk pool
- Create a storage unit
- Create a universal share
- Using image sharing from the NetBackup web UI
- Troubleshooting storage configuration
- Troubleshooting universal share configuration issues
- Create a Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) storage server for image sharing
- Managing protection plans
- Managing classic policies
- Usage reporting and capacity licensing
- Configuring storage
- Section IV. Veritas Resiliency Platform
- Section V. Credentials
- Troubleshooting the NetBackup Web UI
About security management and certificates in NetBackup
NetBackup uses security certificates to authenticate the NetBackup hosts. These certificates must conform to the X.509 public key infrastructure (PKI) standard. With NetBackup 8.1, 8.1.1, and 8.1.2, NetBackup certificates are used for secure communication. In NetBackup 8.2 and later you can use NetBackup certificates or external certificates.
NetBackup certificates are issued to hosts by default and the NetBackup primary server acts as the CA and manages the Certificate Revocation List (CRL). The determines how certificates are deployed to NetBackup hosts and how often the CRL is updated on each host. If a host needs a new certificate (the original certificate is expired or revoked), you can use an NetBackup authorization token to reissue the certificate.
External certificates are those that a trusted external CA signed. When you configure NetBackup to use external certificates, the primary server, media servers, and clients in the NetBackup domain use the external certificates for secure communication. Additionally, the NetBackup web server uses these certificates for communication between the NetBackup web UI and the NetBackup hosts. Deployment of external certificates, updating or replacing external certificates, and CRL management for the external CA are managed outside of NetBackup.
For more information on external certificates, see the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide.
NetBackup 8.1 and later hosts can communicate with each other only in a secure mode. Depending on the NetBackup version, these hosts must have a certificate that the NetBackup CA issued or that another trusted CA issued. A NetBackup certificate that is used for secure communications over a control channel is also referred to as host ID-based certificate.
Any security certificates that NetBackup generated for 8.0 hosts are referred to as host name-based certificates. For more details on these certificates, refer to the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide.