Manage Hosts

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Note: This section is Applicable to migrations which has NetBackup version 8.1 and later.

NetBackup uses security certificates to authenticate NetBackup hosts. The security certificates conform to the X.509 Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) standard. A master server acts as the Certificate Authority (CA) and issues digital certificates to hosts. NetBackup 8.1 and later hosts can communicate with each other only in a securemode. NetBackup 8.1 hosts must have a Certificate Authority (CA) certificate and a host ID-based certificate for successful communication.For more details please refer to the NetBackup Security and Encryption guide.

So for migrations between NetBackup 8.1 and later , CA Certificate and host ID certificates need to be deployed to all the NBU hosts from the destination master server. Tranzman has a brilliant feature which does these deployments named Host Management.

You can access the Host Management from Tranzman UI under Actions->Host Management. Host Management is a vast thing in itself so to understand it better you do need to have some basic information information on how certificates actually work in NetBackup.