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  1. Home
  2. NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
  3. Section II. Managing security
  4. Managing role-based access control
  5. Role permissions
  6. Assets
NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide

Assets

Assets permissions include permissions for the following workloads:

See Cloud assets.

See Microsoft SQL Server assets.

See RHV assets.

See Universal shares.

See VMware assets.

Cloud assets

Permissions for cloud assets allow users to view, protect, and restore in-cloud workload assets using CloudPoint.

Table: Permissions for cloud assets

Operation

Description

Additional required operations

View

View cloud assets.

 

Manage access

See Manage access.

View

Granular restore

Restore individual files or folders from a cloud asset.

View

Protect

Add Cloud assets to a protection plan.

View

Restore to alternate location

Restore to an alternate location.

This permission is required on the source asset.

View

On the target asset:

Allow restore to overwrite

On the target location:

View restore targets

View restore targets

View the available destinations to which to restore an asset.

This permission is required on the target asset.

View

Restore to original location

Restore the cloud asset to its original location.

View

On the target location:

View restore targets

If the original VM exists:

Allow restore to overwrite

Allow restore to overwrite

Overwrite an asset if it exists.

View

On the target location:

View restore targets

Update configuration

Connect to or disconnect from a virtual machine. Add, update, or remove a cloud configuration. Edit VM credentials. Generate a token from CloudPoint to establish communication with the agent on the host. 

View

Microsoft SQL Server assets

Permissions for Microsoft SQL Server assets allow users to view, protect, and restore SQL Server assets using the NetBackup for SQL Server agent.

Note:

To perform discovery, backups, and restores, valid credentials must exist for an availability group or an instance.

Table: Permissions for SQL Server assets

Operation

Description

Additional required operations

View

View availability groups, instances, and databases.

Create

Manually add instances.

View

Update

Update asset details. Add or update credentials for availability replicas or instances.

View

Delete

Delete availability replicas or instances.

View

Manage access

See Manage access.

View

Restore to alternate location

Restore a database to an alternate server. This permission is required for all SQL Server "MOVE" operations.

View

Restore

Discover availability groups

Manually discover availability groups.

To perform discovery, valid credentials must be added to one of the availability group replicas.

View

Discover databases

Manually discover databases.

To perform discovery, valid credentials must be added to the instance.

View

Instant access

Create an instant access database.

View

Restore

Allow restore to overwrite

Overwrite a SQL Server database if it exists.

View

Restore

Protect

Add SQL Server assets to or remove them from protection plans.

View

Restore

Restore databases to the original location, a different database, or a different instance.

View

Validate credentials

Validate credentials when they are added (assigned) to an instance or a replica.

This permission is required on the asset.

On the asset these additional permissions are needed:

View

Update

 

On the credential the following permissions are needed:

Credentials > View

Credentials > Assign credentials

RHV assets

Permissions for RHV assets allow users to view, protect, and restore RHV assets.

Table: Permissions for RHV assets

Operation

Description

Additional required operations

View

View configured RHV managers and RHV assets.

 

View VM intelligent groups.

On the RHV manager that corresponds to the VM group:

View

Create

Add RHV managers.

View

Add VM intelligent groups.

View

On the RHV manager that corresponds to the VM group:

View

Update

Update asset details. Update VM intelligent group contents. Validate credentials

View

Update VM intelligent groups.

View

On the RHV manager that corresponds to the VM group:

View

Delete

Delete RHV managers.

View

Delete VM intelligent groups.

View

On the RHV manager that corresponds to the VM group:

View

Manage access

See Manage access.

View

Protect

Add VMs to or remove them from a protection plan.

View

Add VM intelligent groups to or remove them from protection plans.

On the RHV manager that corresponds to the VM group:

View

Protect

Restore

Restore to original or to an alternate location.

View

Global > NetBackup management > NetBackup backup images > View

On the target location:

View restore targets

Global > NetBackup management > Access hosts > View

View restore targets

View the available destinations to which to restore an asset.

View

Allow restore to overwrite

Overwrite an asset if it exists.

View

Restore

Universal shares

Note:

In NetBackup 8.3 and 9.0, the ability to restore from universal share backups is only available from the NetBackup CLI or the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface. Instant access recovery is only available through the NetBackup APIs.

Permissions for universal share assets allow users to view and create instant access mounts from universal share backups images. Permissions to create and manage universal shares are in Global > Storage > Storage servers.

See Global > Storage.

Table: Permissions for universal shares

Operation

Description

Instant access

View and create instant access mount points on a universal share. Restore from a universal share.

Note: When you create a role you can choose whether or not to apply permissions for universal share assets to all and to future universal share assets. If the option is enabled, a role has access to all mount points. Access cannot be provided for individual mount points.

Users with this permission can also view the storage server that is associated with the universal share.

Manage access

See Manage access.

VMware assets

Permissions for VMware assets allow users to view, protect, and restore VMware assets.

Table: RBAC permissions for VMware assets

Operation

Description

Additional required operations

View

View VMs, vCenter servers, and ESX hosts.

View VM intelligent groups.

On the vCenter that corresponds to the VM group:

View

Create

Add ESX hosts or vCenter hosts. Validate credentials.

View

Add VM intelligent groups.

View

On the vCenter that corresponds to the VM group:

View

Update

Update ESX hosts or vCenter hosts and their credentials. Validate credentials.

View

Update VM intelligent groups.

View

On the vCenter that corresponds to the VM group:

View

Delete

Delete ESX hosts or vCenter hosts.

View

Delete VM intelligent groups.

View

On the vCenter that corresponds to the VM group:

View

Manage access

See Manage access.

View

Restore to cloud

Restore a VM to the cloud.

View

Granular restore

Restore individual files or folders from a VM.

This permission is required on the source and the target VM.

View

Global > NetBackup management > NetBackup backup images > View

Global > NetBackup management > NetBackup backup images > View contents

Instant access - Download files

Download individual files using instant access technology.

View

Global > NetBackup management > NetBackup backup images > View

Instant access - Restore files

Restore individual files using instant access technology.

View

Global > NetBackup management > NetBackup backup images > View

Global > NetBackup management > NetBackup backup images > View contents

Instant access

Create an instant access VM.

View

Global > NetBackup management > NetBackup backup images > View

Protect

Add VMware assets to or remove them from protection plans.

View

Add VMware intelligent groups to or remove them from protection plans.

On the vCenter that corresponds to the VM group:

View

Protect

Restore

Restore to the original or to an alternate location.

View

Global > NetBackup management > NetBackup backup images > View

Global > NetBackup management > Access hosts > View

On the target location:

View restore targets

View restore targets

View the available destinations to which to restore an asset.

View

Allow restore to overwrite

Allow a restore to overwrite an existing asset. Without this permission a user must restore an existing asset to a different location.

View

Restore

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