Netbackup 8.1.2 Pre-Defined Roles

Since NetBackup 8.1.2, Veritas introduced a new web user interface that provides user to access the Master server of Netbackup via browser. From this web UI, the users have a dashboard that displays a quick overview of the information that is important to backup operation. By this web UI, the administrator could configure user access to Netbackup by Role-based access control (RBAC) mechanism. By RBAC mechanism, the administrator could delegate for tasks like NetBackup security management, protection plan configuration and job management, and protection and recovery of assets to other person.

 
By default, there are three pre-defined Roles shipped out-of-the-box to get you up and running quickly. There roles are : Backup administrator, Security administrator and Workload administrator.

NetBackup Security administrator
The NetBackup security administrator performs the following tasks in the NetBackup environment:

• Manages role-based access control. This user can delegate access to NetBackup. This task includes managing the users that can access NetBackup, the role or permissions that users have, and the NetBackup assets that users can access.
• Oversees the security management. This task includes managing NetBackup hosts and certificates, managing global security settings, and viewing security events.

Backup administrator

• The backup administrator performs the following tasks in the NetBackup environment:
• Manages all jobs activity. Monitors all job operations. Able to cancel, suspend, resume, restart, and delete jobs.
  The backup administrator can also configure NetBackup to send email notifications to their ticketing system when certain job failures occur.
• Configures protection plans for the workload administrator.
• Views the usage reporting details on backup data size for NetBackup master servers.

Administrator can limit access (through object groups) for users with the Backup administrator role or with a custom role. However, you cannot limit the jobs that a backup administrator can see. Users with this role can view all job activity.

Workload administrator
The workload administrator performs the following tasks in the NetBackup environment:

• Manages the jobs that they initiate.
• Manages the assets they are granted access to. Configure assets in the NetBackup environment including cloud providers, application servers, and
• asset groups.
• Monitors protection status and subscribes assets to protection plans.
• Performs the recovery for assets they manage. You can limit access (through object groups) for users with the Workload administrator role.

The NetBackup Web UI is compatible with the latest vendor-supported versions of web browsers.
For the best experience with the NetBackup Web UI, Veritas recommends that you use Google Chrome version 60 or later or Mozilla Firefox version 65 or later, without any plug-ins. 

Source: Netbackup 8.1.2 Web UI Guide Security Admin