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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. Configuring RBAC
  6. Default RBAC roles
NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide

Default RBAC roles

The NetBackup web UI provides several default RBAC roles with preconfigured permissions and settings.

Note:

Veritas reserves the right to update the RBAC permissions for default roles in future releases. Any revised permissions are automatically applied to users of these roles when NetBackup is upgraded. If you have copies of default roles (or any custom roles that are based on default roles), these roles are not updated automatically. If you want these custom roles to include changes to default roles, you must manually apply the changes or recreate the custom roles.

Administrator

The Administrator role has full permissions for NetBackup and can manage all aspects of NetBackup, including security, storage, protection plans, policies, jobs, and credentials.

Default Cloud Administrator

This role has all the permissions that are necessary to manage cloud assets and to back up those assets with protection plans.

Table: RBAC permissions for Default Cloud Administrator role

Type

Permissions

Global permissions > NetBackup management

NetBackup backup images

View Contents, View

Jobs

View

Media server

View

Trusted master servers

View

Snapshot management server plug-ins

View, Create, Update, Manage access

Snapshot management servers

Full permissions

Global permissions > Storage

Storage units

View

Replication-capable target storage servers

View

Workloads

Cloud assets

Full permissions

Protection plans

 

Full permissions

Default Microsoft SQL Server Administrator

This role has all the permissions that are necessary to manage SQL Server databases and to back up those assets with protection plans. In addition to this role, the NetBackup user must meet the following requirements:

  • Member of the Windows administrator group.

  • Have the SQL Server "sysadmin" role.

Table: RBAC permissions for Default Microsoft SQL Server Administrator role

Type

Permissions

Global permissions > NetBackup management

Jobs

View

Trusted master servers

View

Global permissions > Storage

Storage units

View

Replication-capable target storage servers

View

Workloads

SQL Server assets

Full permissions

Protection plans

 

Full permissions

Credentials

 

Full permissions

Default Resiliency Administrator

This role has all the permissions to protect Veritas Resiliency Platform (VRP) for VMware assets.

Table: RBAC permissions for Default Resiliency Administrator role

Type

Permissions

Global permissions > NetBackup management

Resiliency domain

Full permissions

Credentials

 

Full permissions

Default RHV Administrator

This role has all the permissions that are necessary to manage Red Hat Virtualization machines and to back up those assets with protection plans.

Table: RBAC permissions for Default RHV Administrator role

Type

Permissions

Global permissions > NetBackup management

Access hosts

View, Create, Delete

Hosts

Update, View

Jobs

View

Resource limits

View, Create, Update, Delete

Trusted master servers

View

Global permissions > Storage

Storage units

View

Replication-capable target storage servers

View

Workloads

RHV assets

Full permissions

Protection plans

 

Full permissions

Default Security Administrator

This role has permissions to manage NetBackup security including role-based access control (RBAC), certificates, hosts, identity providers and domains, global security settings, and other permissions. This role can also view settings and assets in most areas of NetBackup, including workloads, storage, licensing, and other areas.

Table: RBAC permissions for Default Security Administrator role

Type

Permissions

Global permissions > NetBackup management

Access hosts

View, Manage access

Data classifications

View, Manage access

Credentials

View, Manage access

Email notifications

View, Manage access

Event logs: Messages, Notifications

View, Manage access

NetBackup hosts

Full permissions

Image sharing: Amazon Machine Image (AMI) Cloud images, Cloud VM IDs

View, Manage access

NetBackup backup images

View, Manage access

Jobs

View, Manage access

Licensing

View, Manage access

Media server

Full permissions

Remote master server certificate authority

Full permissions

Resiliency domain

View, Manage access

Resource limits

View, Manage access

Retention levels

View, Manage access

Trusted master servers

Full permissions

Cloud providers

View, Manage access

Cloud providers: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

View, Manage access

CloudPoint servers

View, Manage access

WebSocket servers

View, Manage access

Global permissions > Protection

Policies

View, Manage access

Storage lifecycle policies (SLPs)

View, Manage access

Global permissions > Security

Security events

View, Manage access

Certificate management: Certificate authorities, ECA, NetBackup certificates, Tokens

Full permissions

Disaster recovery passphrase

Full permissions

Identity provider configuration

Full permissions

Key Management Services

Full permissions

Passphrase constraints

Update (Full permissions)

Global security settings

Full permissions

Trust versions

View, Manage access

User sessions and authentication: API keys, User certificates, User sessions

Full permissions

Global permissions > Storage

Cloud storage, Disk pools, Storage Key Management Services, Storage servers, Disk volumes, Storage units

View, Manage access

Tape media: Tape media server groups, Tape media volume pools

View, Manage access

Replication-capable target storage servers

View, Manage access

Workloads

Cloud, SQL Server, RHV, VMware

View, Manage access

Protection plans

View, Manage access

Credentials

View, Manage access

Default Storage Administrator

This role has permissions to configure and manages disk-based storage and cloud storage.

Table: RBAC permissions for Default Storage Administrator role

Type

Permissions

Global permissions > NetBackup management

Media server

View

Remote master server certificate authority

View

Trusted master servers

View, Create, Update, Delete

Global permissions > Security

NetBackup security tokens

View, Create

Key Management Services

View, View key details

Global permissions > Storage

Cloud storage

View

Disk pools

View, Create, Update, Delete

Storage servers

View, Create, Update, Delete

Disk volumes

View, Create, Update

Storage units

View, Create, Update, Delete

Replication-capable target storage servers

View

Default VMware Administrator

This role has all the permissions that are necessary to manage VMware virtual machines and to back up those assets with protection plans.

Table: RBAC permissions for Default VMware Administrator role

Type

Permissions

Global permissions > NetBackup management

Access hosts

View, Create, Delete

Hosts

View, Update

Host properties

View, Create, Update

NetBackup images

View, View contents

Jobs

View

Resource limits

View, Create, Update, Delete

Trusted master servers

View

Global permissions > Storage

Storage units

View

Replication-capable target storage servers

View

Workloads

VMware assets

Full permissions

Protection plans

Full permissions

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