Access the NBOS Backup Admin area
Access the NBOS Backup Admin area
- Log in to the Horizon console with the administrator user.
- Navigate to Admin > NBOS Backup Admin > NetBackupOpenStack.
You can filter and view the information for a specific tenant also.
Status overview
The status overview is always visible in the NBOS Backup Admin area. It provides the following information:
Number of protected virtual machines in comparison with the number of existing virtual machines
Number of currently running snapshots
Status of NBOS nodes
Status of NBOSDM services
The status of nodes is filled when the services are running and in good status.
Subscriptions tab
This tab provides information about all currently existing protections. It is the most important overview tab for every backup administrator and therefore the default tab is shown when the NBOS Backup Admin area is opened.
The following information is shown:
User-ID that owns the protection.
Project that contains the protection.
Subscription
Protection type
Availability zone
Number of protected virtual machines
Performance information about the last 30 backups
How much data was backed up (green bars)
How long did the backup take (red line)
Pie chart that shows the number of full backups and incremental backups.
Number of successful backups
Number of failed backups
Storage that is used by that protection.
Which backup target is used.
When is the next snapshot run.
What is the general interval of the protection
Scheduler status including a switch to deactivate/activate the protection
Usage tab
Administrators often need to figure out where a lot of resources are used or they need to quickly provide usage information to a billing system. This tab helps in these tasks by providing the following information:
Storage used by a tenant
Virtual machines protected by a tenant
You can drill down to see the same information per protection and finally per protected virtual machine.
The Usage tab includes the protections and the virtual machines that are no longer actively used by a tenant but exist on the backup target.
Nodes tab
This tab displays information about NetBackup for OpenStack cluster nodes. The following information is shown:
Node name
Node ID
NetBackup for OpenStack Version of the node
IP address
Active controller node (True/False)
Status of the node
The virtual IP is shown as its own node. It is displayed below the current active controller node.
NBOSDM tab (NetBackup for OpenStack data mover service)
This tab displays the information about NetBackup for OpenStack data mover service. The following information is shown:
Service name
Compute node the service is running on.
Service status from an OpenStack perspective (enabled or disabled)
Version of the service
General status
Last time the status was updated.
Audit tab
Audit logs provide the sequence of protection-related activities that users perform such as protection creation, snapshot creation, and so on. The following information is shown:
Date and time of the entry
What task has been done
Project the task has performed in.
User that performed the task.
The audit log can be searched for strings. For example, only entries done by a specific user.
Additionally, the shown time frame can be changed as necessary.
Protection Plan tab
Use the Protection Plan tab to work with the protection plans.
Settings tab
This tab manages all global settings for the cloud. NetBackup for OpenStack has two types of settings:
Email settings
Job scheduler settings