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NetBackup Administration Interfaces

The NetBackup administrator has a choice of several interfaces when administering NetBackup. All the interfaces have similar capabilities. The best choice depends mainly on personal preference and the workstation that is available to the administrator.

  • NetBackup Administration Console
  • A Java-based, graphical-user interface that is started by running the jnbSA command. This is the recommended interface and is the one referred to by most procedures and examples in this manual.
    See NetBackup Administration Console Setup.
  • Character-based, Menu Interface
  • A character-based, menu interface that is started by running the bpadm command. The bpadm interface can be used from any terminal (or terminal emulation window) that has a termcap or terminfo definition.

All NetBackup administrator programs and commands require root-user privileges by default.

It is also possible to display the console on a Java-capable UNIX platform and display it back to a Windows system by using third-party X terminal emulation software.


Note   Note    From NetBackup version 4.5 forward, NetBackup does not include or support the Motif interfaces: xbpadm, xbpmon, xvmadm, and xdevadm. Attempting to configure NetBackup by using copies of these Motif interfaces from an earlier release will corrupt your NetBackup configuration.
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