Overview of security certificates in NetBackup

NetBackup uses security certificates to authenticate NetBackup hosts. The security certificates conform to the X.509 Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) standard. A primary server acts as the Certificate Authority (CA) and issues digital certificates to hosts.

Any security certificates that were generated before NetBackup 8.0 are referred to as host name-based certificates. NetBackup is in the process of replacing these older certificates with newer host ID-based certificates. The transition will be completed in future releases and the use of host name-based certificates will be eliminated.

However, the transition is on-going and NetBackup continues to require the older host name-based certificates for some operations. The following table lists various operations where host name-based certificate is required.