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NBU - tracking configuration changes

Hello Forum, 

Is there a working method (or available NBU utils/logs, etc) to track who and when changes are made to a NBU environment ? 

 

Most NBU adminstration is done using the Java GUI, with remaining admin completed using the command line. The NBU admin su to root and then the auth.conf has all admins with the following config

 root ADMIN=ALL JBP=ALL
 * ADMIN=JBP JBP=ENDUSER+BU+ARC
 admins_name ADMIN=ALL JBP=ALL

 

We have NBU 7.6.0.3 on Linux Redhat 2.6

  • Something like NetBackup Auditing?

    About NetBackup auditing

    Article: HOWTO105855
    Updated: November 19, 2014
    Article URL: http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO105855

     

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  • Something like NetBackup Auditing?

    About NetBackup auditing

    Article: HOWTO105855
    Updated: November 19, 2014
    Article URL: http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO105855

     

  • Unless you're using NBAC (*shudder*) I think you're out of luck even for GUI auditing. You will see that a change was made but not who made it. I think even with NBAC you won't be able to see CLI-driven changes if your admins are elevating to root. 

  • For person referable auditing NBAC is the only solution.

    While NBAC do add a bit of extra complexity its not that bad. 

  • Thanks for the timely responses !  

     

    NBAC is not configured on our NBU environment and it appears that it requires some major planning to implement. I'm guessing, perhaps incorrectly, that if NBAC was configured today, the detailed reporting would only be from today forward.

     

    The command nbauditreport returns some really good configuration change info. It's unfortunate though that the NBU administrators are not setup to access NBU with root access using their individual accounts.  As mentioned, the NBU admins use "sudo su -" to directly access root privileges for NBU admin GUI and NBU commands, so all nbauditreport output shows all commands made by root@master.  Great command that returns good historical info.