Preparing the GCP service account for plug-in configuration

To prepare for the NetBackup Snapshot Manager GCP plug-in configuration

Gather the GCP configuration parameters that NetBackup Snapshot Manager requires.

See Google Cloud Platform plug-in configuration notes.

Do the following:

From the Google Cloud console, navigate to IAM & admin > Service accounts.
Click the assigned service account. Click the three vertical buttons on the right side and select Create key.
Select JSON and click CREATE.

In the dialog box, click to save the file. This file contains the parameters you need to configure the Google Cloud plug-in. The following is a sample JSON file showing each parameter in context. The private-key is truncated for readability.

{
  "type": "service_account",
  "project_id": "some-product",
  "private_key": "-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\n
N11EvA18ADAN89kq4k199w08AQEFAA5C8KYw9951A9EAAo18AQCnvpuJ3oK974z4\n
.
.
.
weT9odE4ryl81tNU\nV3q1XNX4fK55QTpd6CNu+f7QjEw5x8+5ft05DU8ayQcNkX\n
4pXJoDol54N52+T4qV4WkoFD5uL4NLPz5wxf1y\nNWcNfru8K8a2q1/9o0U+99==\n
-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\n",
  "client_email": "email@xyz-product.iam.gserviceaccount.com",
  "auth_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth",
  "token_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token",
  "auth_provider_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com \
   /oauth2/v1/certs",
  "client_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/robot/v1 \
   /metadata/x509/ email%40xyz-product.iam.gserviceaccount.com"
}

Using a text editor, reformat the private_key so it can be entered in the NetBackup Snapshot Manager user interface. When you look in the file you created, each line of the private key ends with \n. You must replace each instance of \n with an actual carriage return. Do one of the following:
- If you are a UNIX administrator, enter the following command in vi. In the following example, the ^ indicates the Ctrl key. Note that only the ^M is visible on the command line.
  :g/\\n/s//^V^M/g
- If you are a Windows administrator, use WordPad or a similar editor to search on \n and manually replace each instance.

When you configure the plug-in from the NetBackup user interface, copy and paste the reformatted private key into the Private Key field. The reformatted private_key should look similar to the following:

Preparing the GCP service account for plug-in configuration

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