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  3. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  5. Section I. About NetBackup
  7. Introducing the NetBackup interfaces
  9. Using the NetBackup Administration Console
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Using the NetBackup Administration Console

The NetBackup Administration Console provides an interface for the administrator to manage NetBackup.

Item

Description

Current master server

The name of the currently selected master server. The information in the NetBackup Administration Console applies to this server only.

Login Activity

Displays the information about the current user's logon attempts and the password expiration date.

Backup, Archive, and Restore

Administrators can use this utility to perform backup and restore operations of NetBackup clients.

Activity Monitor

Displays NetBackup job information and provides the control over the jobs, services, processes, and drives.

See About the Activity Monitor.

NetBackup Management

Contains many utilities to manage NetBackup:

  • Reports - Use to compile information to verify, manage, and troubleshoot NetBackup operations.

    See About the Reports utility.

  • Policies - Use to create and specify the policies that back up a group of clients.

    See About the Policies utility .

  • Storage - Use to configure storage and storage lifecycle policies (SLPs).

    See About the Storage utility .

  • Catalog - Use to create and configure a catalog backup.

    See About the Catalog utility.

  • Host Properties - Use to customize NetBackup configuration options.

    See About the NetBackup Host Properties.

  • Applications - Contains the instances on SQL and on Oracle clients that 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 the utilities to manage settings for security and host:

  • Security Events - Use to view the logon details about the current administrator and the user-initiated changes that are made to NetBackup

    For more information about Security Events, see the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide.

  • Host Management - 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.

  • Global Security Settings - 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. It is recommended that you use role-based access control (RBAC) with the web UI.

Other licensed utilities

Additional licensed utilities appear under the main NetBackup nodes.

Logging Assistant

A tool that helps administrators configure, gather, and upload debug logs.

For more information, see the NetBackup Logging Reference Guide.

Deployment Management

Contains a utility for the main component of VxUpdate that serves as a client or a host upgrade tool.

See About deployment policies utility.

For more information regarding VxUpdate, see the NetBackup Upgrade Guide.

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