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  3. NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
  5. Section I. About NetBackup
  7. Introducing NetBackup
  9. Using the NetBackup web UI
NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide

Using the NetBackup web UI

The NetBackup web UI provides an interface for the administrator to manage NetBackup.

 

Table: Utilities in the left sidebar of the NetBackup web UI

Item

Description

Dashboard

Displays a quick overview of the information that is important to you.

Activity monitor

Displays NetBackup job information and provides the control over the jobs, services, processes, and drives.

See Activity monitor.

Recovery

Administrators can use the Recovery node to perform the following kinds of recovery:

  • Regular recovery - Perform server-directed restores of the assets that are protected by policies. Server-directed restores are currently limited to a subset of policy types.

    Recovery for a specific workload is performed from the Workloads node. For example, to recover VMware assets go to Workloads > VMware.

  • NetBackup catalog recovery. Recovers a catalog backup in a disaster recovery situation.

Protection

Data protection is achieved through policies or protection plans.

See Backup methods supported in the NetBackup web UI.

Workloads

Contains the supported workloads for NetBackup and tools to manage the workload environment, asset credentials, and recovery.

Storage

This node contains the utilities for managing the media and devices that NetBackup uses to store backups.

Catalog

Search for backup images and perform various actions, including: verify the backup contents, duplicate a backup image, promote a copy, expire a backup image, and import a backup image.

See About the Catalog utility.

Detection and reporting

This node contains the following tools:

  • Anomaly detection - Detects anomalies in backup metadata.

    See About backup anomaly detection.

  • Malware detection - Finds malware in supported backup images and finds the last good-known image that is malware free.

    See About malware scanning.

  • Paused protection - Allows NetBackup or authorized users to pause data protection activities.

    See Pause backups and other activity.

  • Usage - Displays the primary servers that are configured for capacity licensing and their respective consumption details.

    See Track protected data size on your primary servers.

  • Reporting - Use to compile information to verify, manage, and troubleshoot NetBackup operations.

    See About the reports utility.

Credential management

Centrally manages the credentials that NetBackup uses to access systems and the workloads that it protects. You can manage credentials for workloads and for systems, client credentials (for NDMP and disk arrays hosts), and External CMS server configurations.

See Overview of credential management in NetBackup.

Hosts

Contains the utilities to manage:

  • Deployment management - The main component of VxUpdate that serves as a client or a host upgrade tool.

    See Managing the NetBackup Package repository.

    For more information regarding VxUpdate, see the NetBackup Upgrade Guide.

  • Host properties - Use to customize NetBackup configuration options.

Resiliency

Integrates NetBackup and Veritas Resiliency Platform to manage your disaster recovery operations.

See About Resiliency Platform in NetBackup.

Security

This node contains the utilities to manage settings for security and hosts:

  • Access keys - Provides access the NetBackup interfaces through API keys and access codes.

  • Certificates - Use to manage NetBackup certificates and view external certificates.

  • Host mappings - Use to carry out NetBackup host operations, such as adding or removing host mappings, resetting a host, or generating a reissue token.

  • Multi-person authorization - Ensures that a second authorized user approves actions before they are performed.

  • RBAC - Use predefined or custom RBAC roles to provide NetBackup users with access to NetBackup, based on their role in your organization.

  • Security events - Use to view the sign-in details for NetBackup users and the user-initiated changes that are made to NetBackup.

    For more information about Security events, see the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide.

  • Tokens - Manage the authorization tokens in your NetBackup environment.

  • User sessions - Manage the settings for NetBackup user sessions, terminate user sessions, and unlock a user.

Other licensed utilities

Additional licensed utilities appear under the main NetBackup nodes.

 

In the upper right-hand corner of the web UI are the following settings.

Table: Utilities in the top toolbar of the NetBackup web UI

Item

Description

Ticket alerts

Displays a summary of any ticket alerts that are available for multiperson authorization.

Notifications

Displays the most recent events that have occurred in the NetBackup environment.

Help

This menu contains links to the following:

  • NetBackup Help file

  • The NetBackup APIs

  • Log collection. A tool that helps administrators gather evidence to troubleshoot an issue. For more information, see the NetBackup Logging Reference Guide.

Settings

This menu contains the following settings:

  • Email notifications - Send email notifications when job failures occur.

  • Global security - Configure security settings for the NetBackup domain.

  • Smart card authentication - Map a smart card or certificate for user validation.

  • Data collector registration - Collect metadata from NetBackup to monitor, manage, and report on NetBackup domains.

  • License management - Manage licenses for NetBackup.

  • Guided setup - Guides you through the process to configure storage, discover virtualization and cloud servers, add protection plans, and protect workloads.

  • NetBackup catalog recovery - Recovers a catalog backup in a disaster recovery situation.

Profile

When you click the profile icon, you can see the following information:

  • Current user's sign in attempts.

  • Password expiration date.

  • NetBackup version of the server.

  • The Approve access request option, to approve an access request that you submitted.

  • The Configure multifactor authentication option, to configure multifactor authentication in NetBackup.

  • The options Add API key or View my API key details, to add your own API key or view the details of your existing API key.

  • In the Profile settings you can add an email address to receive notifications and select ticket events for which you want to receive notifications.

  • The Sign out button, to sign out of the web UI.

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