NetWorker Operations

Operational Management for NetWorker

NetWorker Operations delivers a comprehensive, easy-to-use interface for managing NetWorker backup operations to maximize operator productivity and free system administrators from time-consuming, routine NetWorker tasks. To ensure NetWorker user security, NetWorker Operations enables system administrators to limit operator access to specified NetWorker servers and administrative privileges. NetWorker Operations’ reporting delivers informative, reliable data to help you make strategic resource decisions and optimize IT staff performance.



Features & Benefits

Increased Backup Operator and System Administrator Productivity

    Intuitive, user-friendly Operations GUI simplifies general NetWorker backup functions

    Operators can start/stop backups, monitor NetWorker Servers, mount/unmount/label volumes, clean drives


Preserve Integrity of Backup Environment

    Security mechanism provides different levels of NetWorker server access rights and NetWorker administration privileges based on the user ID

    Auditing mechanism logs each NetWorker backup operation by operator


Informative NetWorker Reporting

    Streaming reports provide real-time jukebox drive utilization and backup status

    Display, save, email, and print report output to 3rd party formats such as text (ASCII), HTML, and CSV formats



Details

Simple, User-friendly NetWorker Operator GUI

NetWorker Operations delivers a comprehensive, easy-to-use interface for managing NetWorker. Operators can start and stop backups, monitor servers, mount, unmount, and label volumes, and clean drives. Simple to learn, NetWorker Operations frees system administrators from routine, time-consuming tasks and increases IT staff productivity.


NetWorker User Security

NetWorker Operations enables system administrators to limit operator access to specified NetWorker servers and NetWorker administrative privileges to guard against unauthorized modifications to the backup environment. In addition, NetWorker Operations audits operator activities so that system administrators know which tasks operators are performing and when.


Advanced NetWorker Operator Reporting

NetWorker Operations empowers administrators with informative, reliable data to make strategic resource decisions within the IT organization, including savegroup and client history, configuration, jukebox usage, and NetWorker media database information. In addition, real-time streaming reports provide visual information about drive utilization and backup status. Reports can also be exported to 3rd party formats to generate standard Excel graphs and e-mail alerts.

The Perfect Complement to NetWorker Management Console

NetWorker Operations enables operators to perform simple tasks across multiple NetWorker Servers, subject to access rights defined by the system administrator. NetWorker Operations enables system administrators to manage multiple NetWorker Servers with full administrative and monitoring rights. To reduce management overhead while maintaining NetWorker security, NetWorker Operations is the perfect complement to NetWorker Management Console.



System Requirements

NetWorker Operations Server

Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, Tru64, IRIX, Windows NT/2000

NetWorker Server and Storage Node

Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, Tru64, IRIX, Windows NT/2000