Using the NetBackup Administration Console
The NetBackup Administration Console provides a graphical user interface through which the administrator can manage NetBackup. It runs on both the Windows and the UNIX platforms.
The name of the currently selected master server.
The information in the NetBackup Administration Console applies to this server only.
Click to display the information about the current user's successful and unsuccessful login attempts, and the password expiration date.
Administrators can use the Backup, Archive, and Restore utility to perform backup, archive, and restore operations for the computer that is currently selected.
Use the Activity Monitor to display NetBackup job information. The Activity Monitor provides the control over the jobs, services, processes, and drives.
See About the Activity Monitor.
NetBackup Management contains many of the utilities to manage NetBackup:
Reports
Use to compile information to verify, manage, and troubleshoot NetBackup operations.
Policies
Use to create and specify the backup policies that define the rules for backing up a group of clients.
Storage
Use to configure storage units, storage unit groups, storage lifecycle policies (SLPs), and windows for secondary operations in SLPs.
Catalog
Use to create and configure a catalog backup, which is a special type of backup that NetBackup requires for its own internal databases.
Host Properties
Use to customize NetBackup configuration options.
Applications
Applications contains all discovered instances on SQL and Oracle clients and any manually added instances. These instances are used to build an Oracle or a SQL Intelligent Policy.
For more information, see the NetBackup for Oracle Administrator's Guide and the NetBackup for SQL Server Administrator's Guide.
Media and Device Management contains the utilities for managing the media and devices that NetBackup uses to store backups:
Device Monitor
Manages the drives, device paths, and service requests for operators.
Media
Adds and manages removable media.
Devices
Adds, configures, and manages storage devices.
Credentials
Adds, removes, and manages logon credentials for NDMP hosts or storage servers.
Security Management contains utilities to manage settings for security and hosts.
Security Events
Use to view the login details about the current administrator and the user-initiated changes that are made to NetBackup
For more information about , see the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide.
Use to carry out NetBackup host operations, such as adding or removing host ID to host name mappings, reset host, or add comment for a host.
Certificate Management
Use to manage NetBackup certificates and view external certificates.
Use to configure security settings for the NetBackup domain.
Access Management
NetBackup Access Control (NBAC) is the legacy access control method for NetBackup and is no longer being updated. Veritas recommends that you use role-based access control (RBAC) with the web UI.
Additional licensed utilities appear under the main NetBackup nodes.
The Logging Assistant is a tool that helps administrators configure, gather, and upload debug logs.
See About the Logging Assistant.
Deployment Management contains the Deployment Policies utility which is the main component of VxUpdate that serves as a client or host upgrade tool.
For more, See About deployment policies utility.
For more information regarding VxUpdate, see Deployment Management chapter within the NetBackup Upgrade Guide