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Veritas NetBackup™ Plug-in for VMware vSphere Web Client Guide

Last Published: 2018-09-17

Product(s): NetBackup (8.1.2)

Introduction and notes
Installing the NetBackup plug-in for vSphere Web Client
Excluding virtual disks from the backup
1. About excluding virtual disks from the backup
2. Setting the exclude disks Custom Attribute
Monitoring backup status
Restoring virtual machines
Troubleshooting
Appendix A. Instant recovery operations
1. Instant recovery events for non-available virtual machines
2. Best practices for instant recovery operations
Appendix B. Installing the vSphere Web Client plug-in from a NetBackup media server and plug-in package host
1. Installing the vSphere Web Client plug-in from a NetBackup media server and plug-in package host (web server)

Configuring ports for the NetBackup Web Services

The NetBackup Recovery Wizard requires the proper configuration of web ports for the NetBackup Web Services on the master server. Otherwise, you cannot authorize the NetBackup plug-in to restore the virtual machines that were backed up by that master server.

The NetBackup installation process automatically runs the configurePorts script to configure NetBackup Web Services to run on any of the following sets of ports.

Table: Port sets for NetBackup Web Services

Port set	HTTPS port	Shutdown port
First set	8443	8205
Second set	8553	8305
Third set	8663	8405

If the configurePorts script does not find one of the sets free (for example 8443 and 8205), it logs an error to the following file:

Windows:

install_path\NetBackup\wmc\webserver\logs\nbwmc_configurePorts.log

UNIX and Linux:

/usr/openv/wmc/webserver/logs/nbwmc_configurePorts.log

On UNIX and Linux, the following appears on the NetBackup system console:

configurePorts: WmcPortsUpdater failed with exit status <status_code>

When this error occurs, use the following procedure on the master server to manually configure the ports. The configurePorts command is in the following location:

Windows:

install_path\NetBackup\wmc\bin\install\configurePorts

UNIX or Linux:

/usr/openv/wmc/bin/install/configurePorts

Note:

NetBackup Web Services on the master server require port 1024 or higher. Do not use a port number that is less than 1024. Ports that are less than 1024 are privileged and cannot be used with the NetBackup Web Services.

To configure ports for the NetBackup Web Services

On the master server, enter the following to list the currently configured ports:
configurePorts -status
Example output:
```
Current Https Port: 8443
Current Shutdown Port: 8205
```
Use the configurePorts command in the following format to re-configure a port:
configurePorts -httpsPort https_port | -shutdownPort shutdown_port
You can configure one or two ports at a time. For example, to configure the HTTPS port to 8553:
configurePorts -httpsPort 8553
Output:
```
Old Https Port: 8443
New Https Port: 8553
```
Use this command as needed to configure a set of ports for HTTPS and shutdown.
See Table: Port sets for NetBackup Web Services for a list of the port sets.
If the master server is in a clustered environment, do the following:
- Make sure that the same set of ports are free on all the cluster nodes: Do step 1 on each node.
- Reconfigure the ports on each node as required: Do step 2.
- To override the ports that are used across all nodes, enter the following:
  configurePorts - overrideCluster true
  This command updates the following file on shared disk:
  Windows:
  install_path/NetBackup/var/global/wsl/portfile
  UNIX or Linux:
  /usr/openv/netbackup/var/global/wsl/portfile
  The NetBackup installer for Web Services uses this file during installation in a clustered mode.

See Port usage for the NetBackup vSphere Web Client Plug-in.