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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section II. Configuring hosts
  4. Configuring host credentials
  5. About configuring credentials
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

About configuring credentials

Credentials appears only if a feature that requires external credentials is licensed.

Use Media and Device Management > Credentials to manage log on credentials for the following:

  • Cloud storage credentials.

    Configure the credentials when you configure the storage server.

    See the NetBackup Cloud Administrator's Guide.

  • NetBackup Deduplication Engine credentials.

    Create the credentials when you configure the storage server.

    See the NetBackup Deduplication Guide.

  • NDMP hosts.

    See the NetBackup for NDMP Administrator's Guide.

  • OpenStorage storage servers.

    Configure the credentials when you configure the storage server.

    See the NetBackup OpenStorage Solutions Guide for Disk.

    See the NetBackup Replication Director Solutions Guide.

  • Virtual machine server credentials.

    See the NetBackup for VMware Administrator's Guide.

  • WebSocket Server credentials

    See the NetBackup WebSocket Service (NBWSS) Reference Guide.

  • Nutanix Acropolis Cluster credentials

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