Ransomware attackers specifically target and attempt to destroy backup systems to increase the probability of payment. Hardening your system is critical. Please ensure you have reviewed your platform security using the Security Hardening Checklist
Cohesity

COHESITY Documentation

Explore our documentation to get started, discover products & new features, access troubleshooting guides, register sources, platforms support.

Products
Data Security Alliance
Visit Cohesity.com
Demos
Support
Blogs
Developers
Partner Portals
Cohesity Community
© 2026 Cohesity, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Terms of Use|
Privacy Policy|
Legal|
  1. Home
  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Security and Encryption Guide
  3. Security management in NetBackup
  4. About the Security Management utilities
Veritas NetBackup™ Security and Encryption Guide

About the Security Management utilities

The NetBackup Administration Console > Security Management node is visible only to administrators on the NetBackup master server. (An exception to this is NetBackup Access Control administrators. They do not see the Security Management node.)

Security Management contains the following utilities to view login activity, manage host ID-based certificates, and configure secure communications in the domain.

  • Use Security Events to view the login details about the current administrator and the user-initiated changes that are made to certificates, tokens, hosts, and security configurations. You can also view details about host connections.

    The Security Events utility contains the following tabs:

    • The Access History tab displays details about the login activities that the current user has performed. The details include successful and unsuccessful login attempts and information about the hosts that the user has tried to access.

      See About login activity.

      The Accessed from field displays the component that the user has used to login: NetBackup Administration Console or NetBackup API.

      Note:

      NetBackup requires the bprd service to be running to display the audit details of the users who are logged in using the NetBackup Administration Console.

    • The Audit Events tab displays audit events according to the audit categories that you have selected, such as Certificate, Host, Security Configuration and so on.

  • Use the Host Management node to carry out NetBackup host operations, such as adding or approving host ID to host name mappings, resetting host, or adding comments for a host.

    See Hosts tab.

    The Host Management node contains the following tabs:

    • The Hosts tab displays host information such as, host IDs and host ID to host name mappings.

    • The Mappings for Approval tab displays host ID to host name mappings that need approval.

  • Use the Certificate Management node to carry out operations specific to certificates such as viewing, revoking, or reissuing.

    See Using the Certificate Management utility to issue and deploy host ID-based certificates.

    • Certificate Management contains the Token Management node. Use the Token Management utility to create, delete, and view the tokens.

      See About Token Management for host ID-based certificates.

  • Use the Global Security Settings node to configure security settings like enable insecure communication, disaster recovery package passphrase, certificate deployment level and so on.

    The Global Security Settings node contains the following tabs:

    • The Secure Communication tab provides NetBackup security settings that you can configure.

    • The Disaster recovery tab lets you configure the disaster recovery package passphrase that you need to get the master server host identity back after a disaster.

  • Use Access Management if NetBackup Access Control (NBAC) is configured. Access Management contains options to define who can access NetBackup and the functions that they can perform.

    See About using NetBackup Access Control (NBAC).

Feedback

Was this page helpful?
Previous

About secure communication in NetBackup

Next

About login activity

Feedback

Was this page helpful?