Configure NetBackup Flex Appliances for Data Collection

To configure NetBackup Flex Appliances for data collection, you must first create a new user account on the Flex primary server and grant sudo access to the user account in /etc/sudoers.d and /mnt/nbdata/vxos/etc/sudoers.d, as described in the procedure below. You must also obtain the REST API key from the NetBackup UI.

Open a SSH session to the NetBackup instance as an admin or root user to create an appadmin user.

Create a local user account:

sudo useradd <username> 
sudo passwd <username>

Grant sudo access to the local user account created above in /etc/sudoers.d:

Create sudoers file in /etc/sudoers.d, substituting the name of the user you created for <username>.
```
sudo visudo -f /etc/sudoers.d/<username>
```

Add these permissions in the interactive editor.

To allows unrestricted access to all the permissions:

Defaults:<username> !requiretty
<username> ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: \
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/* ,\
/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/* ,\
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/*

Or to further restrict access to NetBackup administrative commands, use the following:

Defaults:<username> !requiretty 
<username> ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpgetconfig ,\ 
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpcoverage ,\ 
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpdbjobs ,\ 
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpimagelist ,\ 
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bperror ,\
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpminlicense ,\ 
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bppllist ,\ 
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpretlevel ,\ 
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpplclients ,\ 
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpmedialist ,\ 
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpstulist ,\ 
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbdevquery ,\ 
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbauditreport ,\ 
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbstl ,\ 
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbstlutil ,\ 
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpstsinfo ,\ 
/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmquery ,\ 
/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmpool ,\ 
/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmglob ,\ 
/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmcheckxxx ,\ 
/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmoprcmd ,\ 
/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/tpconfig ,\ 
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bplist ,\ 
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/nbsqladm ,\ 
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/nboraadm

Save and exit the interactive editor.

Grant sudo access to the local user account created above in /mnt/nbdata/vxos/etc/sudoers.d:

Create sudoers file in /mnt/nbdata/vxos/etc/sudoers.d.

sudo visudo -f  /mnt/nbdata/vxos/etc/sudoers.d/<username>