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  1. Home
  2. NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
  3. Section II. Monitoring and notifications
  4. Monitoring NetBackup activity
  5. The NetBackup dashboard
NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide

The NetBackup dashboard

NetBackup monitors and displays the following information about the NetBackup environment.

Table: The NetBackup dashboard

Dashboard widget

Description

Jobs

Lists job information, including the number of active and queued jobs and the status of attempted and completed jobs.

You can click on a link for specific job details, for example Active jobs. NetBackup opens the Jobs list in the Activity monitor and creates a temporary filter for those jobs on the Jobs tab.

  • If you navigate to another area of the web UI, the filter is removed (if you did not copy and save it).

  • To save the filter, hover over the filter in the toolbar and click Actions > View. Click Copy, make any changes that you want, and then click Save.

  • You can click Actions > Delete to immediately delete the filter.

Backup anomaly detection

Displays the total anomalies that are reported so far.

See View backup anomalies.

Note: An anomalies count of 0 indicates there are no anomalies generated or that the anomaly detection services are not running.

Malware detection

Displays the malware scan result status for the images including Impacted, Not impacted, Failed, In progress, and Pending.

(Applicable only when file hash search is configured and domain is not registered with Alta) The View impact analysis report displays the set of backup images affected, asset client name (to which the backups belong) and affected file paths.

See About malware scanning.

Paused protection

Lists any paused protection activities for clients. These activities include new backups, duplication, and image expiration. NetBackup pauses protection if it detects malware in backup images.

Automatic indicates the activities that are automatically paused by NetBackup. User-initiated indicates an activity that was paused manually by a user.

See Pause backups and other activity.

Security configuration risk

Displays the security configuration risk score based on the security settings you chose for NetBackup. Select the link for View security settings to see more details and make any changes.

See About security configuration risk.

Certificates

Displays the information about the NetBackup host ID-based security certificates and any external certificates in your environment.

More details are available in Certificates > External certificates.

See About security management and certificates in NetBackup.

For NetBackup certificates, the following information is shown:

  • # Certificates. The total number of certificates. Note that the hosts most be online and able to communicate with the NetBackup primary server.

  • Revoked. The number of hosts that have a NetBackup certificate that is revoked.

  • Valid. The number of hosts that have a NetBackup certificate enrolled.

  • Expired. The number of hosts with expired NetBackup certificates.

For external certificates, the following information is shown for NetBackup 8.2 and later hosts:

  • # Certificates. The total number of external certificates. Note that the hosts most be online and able to communicate with the NetBackup primary server.

  • Not configured. The number of hosts that do not have an external certificate enrolled.

  • Valid. The number of hosts that have an external certificate enrolled.

  • Expired. The number of hosts with expired external certificates.

Usage reporting

Lists the size of the backup data for the NetBackup primary servers in your organization. This reporting is useful to track capacity licensing. Use the dropdown lists in the top right to select the time period and the view that you want to display. Click on a server name to see specific details for that server.

Additional details are available for how to configure NetBackup to display primary server information in this widget.

See Track protected data size on your primary servers.

Security events

The Access history view includes a record of logon events. The Audit events view includes the events that users initiate on the NetBackup primary server.

Tokens

Displays the information about the authorization tokens in your environment.

See Manage NetBackup certificate authorization tokens.

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