Requirements

System Requirements

Veritas NetBackup KM for PATROL supports the following operating systems:

Software Requirements

Veritas NetBackup KM for PATROL supports:

For the Access Control List (ACL)

The KM stores all configuration information in the PATROL Agent configuration database (pconfig), under the /NBU/<node-id> and /Runtime/NBU/<node-id> paths. PATROL Agent user (default: patrol) should be able to read and write to these pconfig variables any time. If Access Control List (ACL) is used to control which users are authorized to connect to a PATROL Agent, please make sure that the mode for PATROL Agent user includes “C” in the PATROL Agent variable /AgentSetup/accessControlList. Please refer to the PATROL Agent Reference Manual for more details.

To support bash shell platforms when ksh is not installed

To collect NetBackup stats when ksh was not installed on UNIX/Linux servers, you need to create a soft link for /bin/ksh to /bin/bash:

ln -s /bin/bash /bin/ksh

Security Requirements

A user account with administrative privileges must be configured in BMC PATROL or BMC TrueSight Operations Management to read and execute Veritas NetBackup application programs and access file systems. Depending on the operating systems used, several options will be available.

The following user accounts can be used:

• On UNIX/Linux platforms:

  • a root user
  • a non-root user, such as patrol, that has Sudo privileges on NetBackup to execute application programs and access file systems
  • a non-root account, such as patrol, configured in NetBackup application to administer the NetBackup application.

• On Windows platforms:

  • an administrator user
  • a non-administrator account, such as patrol, configured in NetBackup application to administer the NetBackup application. Refer to the NetBackup System Administrator’s Guide for details on how to set up this type of account.

• Users added to NBU_Admin user group in VxSS. Please make sure the credentials of this user do not expire using the utility nbac_cron.

The user login details are configured in the KM. The password is encrypted and stored in the PATROL Agent.

This user needs read & execute permission to executable and library files under the paths listed below. The Veritas NetBackup installation path INSTALL_PATH, referenced in the tables below is usually:

• /usr/openv (on UNIX/Linux)
• C:\Program Files\Veritas (on Microsoft Windows)

Here are the executable and library files accessed by the Veritas NetBackup KM User:

If the KM is enabled to failover in a clustered environment, the login user needs execute permissions to the following cluster commands:

• /opt/VRTSvcs/bin/hagrp (in Veritas Cluster Server)
• vxdctl (in Veritas Cluster File System)
• /usr/cluster/bin/clrg (in Oracle Solaris Cluster)
• cluster (in Microsoft Cluster)

The Veritas NetBackup KM includes some scripts which should be executable by the PATROL Agent user and the Veritas NetBackup KM user. These scripts are stored under KM_HOME path, normally <PATROL_HOME>/lib/NBU.

Here are the paths and files accessed by the PATROL Agent User:

On Windows platforms the Veritas NetBackup installation is identified by checking the Microsoft Windows Registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Veritas\NetBackup\

The configured login user should have sufficient privileges to run regedit command on the managed node.

User_Alias NBUKMUSERS = <nbu-km-user>
Defaults:NBUKMUSERS !lecture,!authenticate,!requiretty,env_keep+="PATH INSTALL_PATH KM_HOME KM_TEMP",env_reset
NBUKMUSERS ALL=/bin/cat,/usr/bin/du,/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/*,/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/*,/usr/openv/db/bin/*

Defaults    secure_path = /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd:/usr/openv/volmgr/bin:/usr/openv/db/bin

[patrol@rt-netbck-vtl ~]$ export PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd:/usr/openv/volmgr/bin:/usr/openv/db/bin
[patrol@rt-netbck-vtl ~]$ sudo bpdbjobs -report -most_columns
17106,6,3,2524,catalog-backup,-,rt-netbck-vtl.internal.sentrysoftware.net,rt-netbck-vtl.internal.sentrysoftware.net,1624486390,0000000608,1624486998, ,2,,,,,0,,root,1,35,0,0,root,rt-netbck-vtl.internal.sentrysoftware.net,2,2,0,0,0,0,0,17106,,,,,,,,,,,,-1,0,0,1,0,0,rt-netbck-vtl.internal.sentrysoftware.net_1624486995,1,,0,0, ,,,,,
17105,17,3,1,,,,,1624464012,0000000010,1624464022,,1,,,,,100,21910,root,,,,85000,,rt-netbck-vtl.internal.sentrysoftware.net,,,,,,0,0,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,

foreach var (grep("^/Runtime/NBU/.*CommandControls/",pconfig("LIST")))
{
	ctl=get(var);
	opt=ntharg(grep("Option",ctl),"2-"," =");
	nsa=ntharg(grep("NoSudoAttempt",ctl),"2-"," =");
	sua=ntharg(grep("SingleUserAttempt",ctl),"2-"," =");
	typ=ntharg(grep("CommandType",ctl),"2-"," =");
	cmd=nthargf(grep("CommandText",ctl),"2-","=","=");
	if(osp=="") { osp=trim(nthargf(grep("OSPlatform",ctl),"2-","=","="), " "); }
	fields=lines(ntharg(var,"1-","/"));
	old_host=host;
	host=(fields == 5)? ntharg(var,"3","/") : "localhost";
	if(host!=old_host)
	{
		if((osp!="WINDOWS") && sudoers) { printf("\n\nCommands used with sudo:\n%s",sort(sudoers)); }
		printf("\n\nOn %s:\n\n", host);
		i=0; sudoers=""; osp="";
	}
	if((typ == "")||(typ == "OS"))
	{
		met="";
		if(opt == "NoLogin") { met = "(run as patrol user)"; }
		elsif(nsa == "YES") { met = "(run as configured user without sudo)"; }
		elsif(sua == "YES") { met = "(run as supplied user - used in menu)"; }
		else
		{
			scmd=cmd;
			s=index(scmd,"%sudo");
			if(s) { scmd=replace(substr(scmd,s,length(scmd)),"%sudo",""); }
			sudoers=union(sudoers,ntharg(ntharg(scmd,1,">|"),"1-"," "," "));
		}
		printf("(%2d) %-30s %-40s: %s\n",i++,ntharg(var,fields,"/"),met,cmd);
	}
}
if((osp!="WINDOWS") && sudoers) { printf("\n\nCommands used with sudo:\n%s",sort(sudoers)); }

Disk Space Requirements

Veritas NetBackup KM requires approximately:

• 2.5 MBytes of available disk space on each monitored PATROL Agent system
• 3.5 MBytes of available disk space on each PATROL Console system
• 600 KBytes of available disk space on each PATROL Central Console Server system
• 1.4 MBytes of available disk space on each PATROL Central Web Server system

It is installed under the PATROL installation path.

When monitoring a standard installation of Veritas NetBackup, the PATROL Agent will generate approximately 250 KBytes of history data per day. An enterprise installation of Veritas NetBackup on a master server with multiple media servers, clients, robotic libraries, and standalone drives will generate more history data (as per other KMs used by the PATROL Agent). These history data files are recycled by PATROL depending on the PATROL Agent history retention period.

During execution, the KM creates and maintains temporary files under KM_TEMP(default: <PATROL_HOME>/lib/NBU/tmp) and KM_DEBUG (default: <PATROL_HOME>/log) paths, where <PATROL_HOME> path is usually /opt/bmc/Patrol3/ (on UNIX/Linux) or C:\Program Files\BMC Software\Patrol3\ (on Microsoft Windows). Please make sure you have sufficient space under these paths. These folders should have read, write and execute permissions for the PATROL Agent user.

Remote Monitoring Requirements

Remote monitoring is required for all servers or appliances on which no PATROL Agent can be installed. This feature is also interesting if you lack resources or time to deploy a PATROL Agent and Veritas NetBackup KM on several servers since it allows to monitor multiple hosts from one agent.

Remote monitoring is not possible from a UNIX/Linux PATROL Agent system to a Windows-based NetBackup server.

Please refer to the sections below to find out the remote monitoring requirements:

• Java Runtime Environment
• NetBackup CLI User Account
• SSH/WMI Connection