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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section II. Configuring hosts
  4. Configuring Host Properties
  5. Credential Access properties
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Credential Access properties

Certain NetBackup hosts that are not named as clients in a policy must be enabled to access NDMP or disk array credentials. Use the Credential Access properties dialog box to enter the names of those NetBackup hosts.

Figure: Credential Access dialog box

Credential Access dialog box

The Credential Access dialog box contains the following properties.

Table: Credential Access dialog box properties

Property

Description

NDMP Clients list

To add an NDMP client to the NDMP Clients list, click Add. Enter the names of the NDMP hosts that are not named as clients in a policy.

Disk clients list

To add a Disk Client to the Disk Clients list, click Add. Enter the names of the NetBackup hosts that meet all of the following criteria:

  • The host must be designated in a policy as the Off-host backup host in an alternate client backup.

  • The host that is designated as the Off-host backup computer must not be named as a client on the Clients tab in any NetBackup policy.

  • The policy for the off-host backup must be configured to use one of the disk array snapshot methods for the EMC CLARiiON, HP EVA, or IBM disk arrays

    Note:

    The credentials for the disk array or NDMP host are specified under Media and Device Management > Credentials.

    Note:

    Off-host alternate client backup is a feature of NetBackup Snapshot Client, which requires a separate license. The NetBackup for NDMP feature requires the NetBackup for NDMP license.

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