Logging in to the NetBackup Administration Console
Use the NetBackup Administration Console to administer and monitor NetBackup operations.
To log in to the NetBackup Administration Console
- On a Windows host where the NetBackup Administration Console is installed, select Start > Programs > Veritas NetBackup > NetBackup 8.2 Administration Console.
On a UNIX computer, use the jnbSA command:
/usr/openv/java/jnbSA &
- The login screen for the NetBackup Administration Console displays a name in the Host name field.
The default host name is the last host that you successfully logged in to. The drop-down list contains the names of other hosts that you logged in to.
To log in to a different host, type the name of another host.
If the server you enter is a media server or client, the media server or client must have a security certificate installed.
- In the login screen, type your user name and password. To log in to a Windows server, enter both the domain of the server and the user name as follows:
domain_name\user_name
The domain_name specifies the domain of the NetBackup host. If the host is not a member of a domain, the domain_name is not required.
- To log in to the application server using Windows Active Directory credentials, enable Use Active Directory login credentials. By enabling the option, you can bypass the authentication that is required using the user name and enable Single Sign-on (SSO).
Users with administrative as well as non-administrative privileges can use SSO. The user with administrative privileges needs to right-click and select the Run as administrator option while launching the NetBackup Administration Console. Selecting this option enables the user to view the console with administrative privileges.
Note the following about SSO:
The SSO option is available only when both the NetBackup master server and the NetBackup client are Windows hosts.
After the first successful login using SSO, the Use Active Directory login credentials check box remains in the enabled state for the next login attempt on the same server for the same client.
The NetBackup Administration Console on a UNIX master server does not show the check box to use the Active Directory credentials.
UNIX hosts can log in to the application server using the user name-based authentication.
- Click Login to log in to the NetBackup application server program on the specified server. The interface program continues to communicate through the server that is specified in the logon screen for the remainder of the current session.
The NetBackup Administration Console is best viewed at a screen resolution of 1280 X 1024 or higher. The minimum supported screen resolution to use the console is 1024 X 768.
The NetBackup Administration Console does not support user-defined characters (UDC) and vendor-defined characters (VDC) because of the implementation of Java's encoding converters.
On non-English versions of Windows and UNIX systems, the NetBackup Administration Console may display non-US ASCII characters incorrectly. This issue can lead to functional failures.
This issue results from a character encoding mismatch between the NetBackup server and the NetBackup Administration Console. For a detailed description of the configuration, refer to the following article on the Veritas Support website:
To use the NetBackup Administration Console on a Windows computer, the Microsoft Windows UAC (User Access Control) feature must be disabled. See the following link for instructions:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/turn-user-account-control-on-off#1TC=windows-7
If there is more than one NetBackup server, the NetBackup Administration Console can be run on more than one server at one time. However, if more than one administrator makes changes to the configuration, the results are unpredictable.
Figure: Selection on the installation panel to install only the NetBackup Administration Console shows the selection to install only the NetBackup Administration Console.
