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  2. NetBackup™ Security and Encryption Guide
  3. Section I. Identity and access management
  4. Enhanced Auditing
  5. Configuring Enhanced Auditing
  6. Connecting to a media server with Enhanced Auditing
NetBackup™ Security and Encryption Guide

Connecting to a media server with Enhanced Auditing

For Enhanced Auditing, a security certificate is mandatory when a user wants to connect to a media server through the NetBackup Administration Console. Additional steps must be executed on the primary server to get the certificate for each media server. Refer to the following procedure for details:

To generate a security certificate for a server

  1. Run the bpnbaz -ProvisionCert target.server.com command on the primary server. Here the target.server.com is the media server name.

    Sample usage: acme.domain.mycompany.com is a media server to which a user wants to do a change server

    Run the command bpnbaz -ProvisionCert acme.domain.mycompany.com on the primary server.

    The following is the output:

    bpnbaz -ProvisionCert acme.domain.mycompany.com

    Setting up security on target host: acme.domain.mycompany.com

    Certificate deployed successfully

    Operation completed successfully.

  2. Always restart the services on the media servers after generating a certificate.

Note:

Generating a security certificate is a one-time activity.

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