Control-M for Veritas NetBackup

Veritas NetBackup enables backup and recovery across physical, virtual, and cloud platforms.

Control-M for Veritas NetBackup enables you to do the following:

• Run, monitor, and rerun Veritas NetBackup backup policies.

• Manage Veritas NetBackup credentials in a secure connection profile.

• Connect to any Veritas NetBackup endpoint.

• Introduce all Control-M capabilities to Control-M for Veritas NetBackup, including advanced scheduling criteria, complex dependencies, resource pools, lock resources, and variables.

• Integrate Veritas NetBackup jobs with other Control-M jobs into a single scheduling environment.

• Monitor the status, results, and output of Veritas NetBackup jobs.

• Attach an SLA job to the Veritas NetBackup jobs.

Setting up Control-M for Veritas NetBackup

This procedure describes how to deploy the Veritas NetBackup plug-in, create a connection profile, and define a Veritas NetBackup job in Control-M SaaS and Automation API.

Before You Begin

• Verify that Automation API is installed, as described in Setting Up the API.

• Verify that Agent version 9.0.21.080 or higher is installed.

1. On the Agent host, run one of the following commands to set the Java environment variable:

   • Linux:

     • Bourne shell/bash: export BMC_INST_JAVA_HOME=<java_directory>

     • csh/tcsh: setenv BMC_INST_JAVA_HOME <java_directory>

   • Windows: set BMC_INST_JAVA_HOME="<java_directory>"

2. Do one of the following:

   • Install: Run one of the following provision image commands:

     • Linux: ctm provision image Veritas_NetBackup_plugin.Linux

     • Windows: ctm provision image Veritas_NetBackup_plugin.Windows

   • Upgrade: Run the following command:

     ctm provision agent::update

3. Create a Veritas NetBackup connection profile in Control-M SaaS or Automation API, as follows:

   • Control-M SaaS: Create a Centralized Connection Profile with Veritas NetBackup Connection Profile Parameters

   • Automation API: ConnectionProfile:NetBackup

4. Define a Veritas NetBackup job in Control-M SaaS or Automation API, as follows:

   • Control-M SaaS: Create a Job with Veritas NetBackup Job parameters

   • Automation API: Job:NetBackup

Change Log

The following table provides details about changes that were introduced in new versions of this plug-in:

Plug-in Version	Details
1.0.02	Domain Type attribute in the connection profile updated to a drop-down list Trial Backup attribute in the job definition updated to a drop-down list
1.0.01	Create Jobs Per Client added to job definition
1.0.00	Initial version