Veritas NetBackup™ Security and Encryption Guide
- Read this first for secure communications in NetBackup
- Communication failure scenarios
- Increasing NetBackup security
- Security deployment models
- Auditing NetBackup operations
- About audit events
- Section I. Identity and access management
- About identity and access management
- AD and LDAP domains
- API keys
- Auth.conf file
- Role-based access control (RBAC)
- Smart card or digital certificate
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Enhanced Auditing
- NetBackup Access Control Security (NBAC)
- Configuring NetBackup Access Control (NBAC)
- Configuring Access Control host properties for the master and media server
- Access Control host properties dialog for the client
- Troubleshooting Access Management
- Windows verification points
- UNIX verification points
- Verification points in a mixed environment with a UNIX master server
- Verification points in a mixed environment with a Windows master server
- About determining who can access NetBackup
- Viewing specific user permissions for NetBackup user groups
- Section II. Encryption of data in transit
- NetBackup CA and NetBackup certificates
- About the Security Management utilities
- About host management
- Adding shared or cluster mappings
- Allowing or disallowing automatic certificate reissue
- About global security settings
- About host name-based certificates
- About host ID-based certificates
- Using the Certificate Management utility to issue and deploy host ID-based certificates
- About NetBackup certificate deployment security levels
- Setting up trust with the master server (Certificate Authority)
- About reissuing host ID-based certificates
- About Token Management for host ID-based certificates
- About the host ID-based certificate revocation list
- About revoking host ID-based certificates
- Host ID-based certificate deployment in a clustered setup
- About deployment of a host ID-based certificate on a clustered NetBackup host
- Migrating NetBackup CA
- External CA and external certificates
- About external CA support in NetBackup
- Configuration options for external CA-signed certificates
- ECA_CERT_PATH for NetBackup servers and clients
- About certificate revocation lists for external CA
- About certificate enrollment
- Configuring an external certificate for the NetBackup web server
- About external certificate configuration for a clustered master server
- Regenerating keys and certificates
- NetBackup CA and NetBackup certificates
- Section III. Encryption of data at rest
- Data at rest encryption security
- About NetBackup client encryption
- Configuring standard encryption on clients
- About configuring standard encryption from the server
- Configuring legacy encryption on clients
- About configuring legacy encryption from the client
- About configuring legacy encryption from the server
- Additional legacy key file security for UNIX clients
- NetBackup key management service
- About FIPS enabled KMS
- About the Key Management Service (KMS)
- Installing KMS
- Configuring KMS
- About key groups and key records
- Overview of key record states
- Configuring NetBackup to work with KMS
- About using KMS for encryption
- KMS database constituents
- Command line interface (CLI) commands
- About exporting and importing keys from the KMS database
- Troubleshooting KMS
- External key management service
- Configuring KMS credentials
- Configuring KMS
- Creating keys in an external KMS
- Working with multiple KMS servers
- Data at rest encryption security
- NetBackup web services account
- Immutability and indelibility of data in NetBackup
Configuring validity of the autoreissue parameter for a host
When you allow automatic reissue of a host ID-based certificate, the autoreissue parameter is by default enabled for 2880 minutes (or 48 hours or 2 days). After this duration, the parameter is reset and the certificate reissue operation requires a reissue token.
You can configure the duration for automatic reissue of certificate or the time-to-live (TTL) setting for the autoreissue parameter by updating the web.conf
file.
To configure validity of the autoreissue parameter or the TTL setting
- Open the
web.conf
file. Location for the file is as follows:On Windows: Install_Path\var\global\wsl\config\web.conf
On Linux: /usr/openv/var/global/wsl/config/web.conf
- Configure the TTL setting for the autorissue parameter in minutes. For example:
ttl.autoReissue.minutes = 1440
Note:
Valid range for the autoreissue TTL setting is 0 min to 43200 min (or 30 days).
If the TTL value that you have configured is not within the valid range, the server continues using the last configured TTL value.
For the new autoreissue TTL value to take effect, do one of the following:
Restart the NetBackup Web Management Console (WMC) service.
Run the following command:
On Windows: Install_Path/bin/nbhostdbcmd -reloadconfig -host
On UNIX: NETBACKUP_INSTALL_DIR\bin\nbhostdbcmd -reloadconfig -host