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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ OpsCenter Administrator's Guide
  3. Overview of NetBackup OpsCenter
  4. Common tasks in OpsCenter
Veritas NetBackup™ OpsCenter Administrator's Guide

Common tasks in OpsCenter

Table: Quick links to the OpsCenter documentation lists common tasks and corresponding links to the documentation.

Table: Quick links to the OpsCenter documentation

OpsCenter functions

Tasks

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User Management

Create, update, delete users

Create, update, delete user groups

Add, remove users from user groups

Assign, remove roles to users and user groups

See About managing OpsCenter users .

See Setting user preferences.

OpsCenter Management

Add, update, or delete master servers

Add, update, or delete OpsCenter Agents

Set default currency, SNMP, SMTP server

See Adding a master server or appliance in OpsCenter.

See Editing a master server or an appliance master server in OpsCenter.

See Deleting a master server or an appliance master server in OpsCenter.

See About managing OpsCenter Agents.

See About managing cost analysis and chargeback for OpsCenter Analytics.

See About managing recipients in OpsCenter.

See Configuring SMTP server settings for OpsCenter.

NetBackup Operations

Change states of the NetBackup entities as follows:

Policy (Activate or deactivate)

Job (Stop, start, suspend, or resume)

Media (Assign, freeze, unfreeze)

Drives (Up or down)

See Activating or deactivating a job policy.

See Controlling NetBackup jobs.

See Controlling media.

See Controlling drives.

Backup and Recovery

Execute manual backups

Search and restore files, directories, or application (Oracle)

See Starting a manual backup.

See About Operational Restores from OpsCenter.

Views Management

Create, update, delete OpsCenter views and nodes

Assign read or write permissions to users on OpsCenter views and nodes

See About managing OpsCenter views.

See User access rights and functions in OpsCenter user interface.

See Adding new users to OpsCenter.

Report Execution

Execute report templates and custom reports

Schedule canned and custom reports

Create, update Dashboard

Schedule when you want a report to run

See Creating an OpsCenter report using a Report Template.

See Creating a custom report in OpsCenter.

See About managing My Dashboard.

See About managing report schedules in OpsCenter.

Monitoring

View entities (Dashboards, Summary, Details): Job, Policy, Services etc.

See About monitoring NetBackup using the Overview tab.

See About monitoring NetBackup jobs.

See About monitoring NetBackup policies.

See Monitor > Services view.

Alert Management

Create, update, delete alert policies

Assign, acknowledge, and clear alerts

See About creating (or changing) an alert policy.

See Managing an alert policy .

See About managing recipients in OpsCenter.

See Configuring SMTP server settings for OpsCenter.

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