Connecting to a media server with Enhanced Auditing
For Enhanced Auditing, a security certificate is mandatory when a user wants to connect to a media server through the NetBackup Administration Console. Additional steps must be executed on the master server to get the certificate for each media server. Refer to the following procedure for details:
To generate a security certificate for a server
- Run the bpnbaz -ProvisionCert target.server.com command on the master server. Here the target.server.com is the media server name.
Sample usage: acme.domain.mycompany.com is a media server to which a user wants to do a change server
Run the command bpnbaz -ProvisionCert acme.domain.mycompany.com on the master server.
The following is the output:
bpnbaz -ProvisionCert acme.domain.mycompany.com
Setting up security on target host: acme.domain.mycompany.com
Certificate deployed successfully
Operation completed successfully.
- Always restart the services on the media servers after generating a certificate.
Note:
Generating a security certificate is a one-time activity.