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  2. NetBackup™ for OpenStack Administrator's Guide
  3. NetBackup for OpenStack policies
  4. Policy overview
NetBackup™ for OpenStack Administrator's Guide

Policy overview

View the information about the policy in the Policy overview.

Using Horizon

To enter the policy overview inside Horizon do the following steps:

  1. On the Horizon console, navigate to NBOS Backups > Policies.

  2. Identify the policy to view.

  3. Click the policy name to view the policy overview.

    Details

    The Policy Details tab provides you with the most important information about the policy:

    • Name

    • Description

    • Availability Zone

    • List of protected VMs including the information of qemu guest agent availability

    The status of the qemu-guest-agent shows whether the necessary OpenStack configuration has been done for this VM to provide qemu guest agent integration. It does not check if the qemu guest agent is installed and configured on the VM.

    You can navigate to the protected VM directly from the list of protected VMs.

    Snapshots

    The Snapshots tab shows the list of all available snapshots in the chosen policy.

    From here it is possible to work with the snapshots, create snapshots on demand and start restores.

    See About snapshots.

    Policy Attributes

    The Policy Attributes tab gives an overview of the current configured scheduler and retention policy. The following elements are shown:

    • Scheduler Enabled or Disabled

    • Start Date and Time

    • End Date and Time

    • RPO

    • Time until next Snapshot run

    • Retention Policy and Value

    • Full Backup Interval policy and value

    File Search

    The File Search tab provides access to the powerful search engine, which allows to find files and folders on snapshots without the need of a restore.

    See About file search.

    Misc.

    The Miscellaneous tab shows the remaining metadata of the policy. The following information is provided:

    • Creation time

    • Last update time

    • Policy ID

    • Policy Type ID

    • Policy Attribute ID

    • Project ID

    • User ID

Using CLI
nbosjm policy-show <policy-id> [--verbose <verbose>]
  • <policy-id> ID/name of the policy to show.

  • --verbose Option to show additional information about the policy.

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