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  2. NetBackup™ Web UI Security Administrator's Guide
  3. Managing role-based access control
  4. NetBackup default RBAC roles
NetBackup™ Web UI Security Administrator's Guide

NetBackup default RBAC roles

With the NetBackup RBAC default roles you can delegate for tasks like NetBackup security management, protection plan configuration and job management, and protection and recovery of assets.

NetBackup security administrator

The NetBackup security administrator performs the following tasks in the NetBackup environment:

  • Manages role-based access control. This user can delegate access to NetBackup. This task includes managing the users that can access NetBackup, the role or permissions that users have, and the NetBackup assets that users can access.

  • Oversees the security management. This task includes managing NetBackup hosts and certificates, managing global security settings, and viewing security events.

Backup administrator

The backup administrator performs the following tasks in the NetBackup environment:

  • Manages all jobs activity. Monitors all job operations. Able to cancel, suspend, resume, restart, and delete jobs.

    The backup administrator can also configure NetBackup to send email notifications to their ticketing system when certain job failures occur.

  • Configures protection plans for the workload administrator.

  • Views the usage reporting details on backup data size for NetBackup master servers.

You can limit access (through object groups) for users with the Backup administrator role or with a custom role. However, you cannot limit the jobs that a backup administrator can see. Users with this role can view all job activity.

Workload administrator

The workload administrator performs the following tasks in the NetBackup environment:

  • Manages the jobs that they initiate.

  • Manages the assets they are granted access to. Configure assets in the NetBackup environment including cloud providers, application servers, and asset groups.

  • Monitors protection status and subscribes assets to protection plans.

  • Performs the recovery for assets they manage.

You can limit access (through object groups) for users with the Workload administrator role.

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