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Tidal™ Enterprise Adapter for VERITAS NetBackup
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One of the more important aspects of VERITAS® NetBackup™ is providing the capability
to schedule backups with a great deal of flexibility and control. While NetBackup's internal
scheduler does an adequate job of managing its own processes, it is not optimized for all
enterprise scheduling requirements. A significant limitation includes managing dependencies
across multiple applications and platforms—a critical functionality for streamlining
operations. Custom-made by Tidal Consulting Services for the unique needs of any
organization, Tidal Enterprise Adapter™ for VERITAS NetBackup is the interface between
Tidal Enterprise Scheduler™ and NetBackup. Together, they provide organizations with
robust scheduling functionality including cross-platform, cross-application dependency
support, real-time interaction and centralized control.
Bring It All Under One Roof
With the Enterprise Adapter for VERITAS NetBackup, Tidal Software provides a consolidated,
enterprise-wide scheduling solution for your corporate datacenter that includes your backup
technology. Instead of multiple applications and machines with their own schedulers or
scripts, Enterprise Adapter for VERITAS NetBackup brings all scheduling policies and jobs
under one umbrella. With the addition of Tidal Enterprise Scheduler to your NetBackup
infrastructure, you can easily manage your backup schedules and maintain a centralized level
of control over your data protection needs.
Key Benefits
- Leverages existing technology and expands NetBackup investments to create a
complete enterprise solution
- Consolidates VERITAS application automation under one corporate-wide console
with one staff and one set of internal procedures
- Connects VERITAS to other platforms, other business applications and other
VERITAS instances with unlimited dependencies for broader, integrated workflows
- Reduces training and operational support to one application automation
environment
Provides richer, more advanced scheduling features than the native VERITAS job scheduler
for greater efficiency and productivity.
Key Features
- View and interact with NetBackup processes in real-time
- Schedule a single occurrence or recurring process within NetBackup
- Set a dependency between a NetBackup process and a process running on another
operating system such as Unix®, Windows® NT/2000, Linux®, z/OS® and MPE/iX®
- Set a dependency between a NetBackup process and a process running in another
application such as SAP® R/3, PeopleSoft® and Oracle® E-Business Suite
- Schedule a NetBackup process based on multiple types of business calendars
- View the NetBackup flow graphically
- Display and manage NetBackup output from a central console
- Ability to view reports and alert personnel based on various NetBackup job
statuses
- Monitor any files that are used as events to trigger a NetBackup process
- Manage queues for all NetBackup processes
- Centralize security administration for all NetBackup processes
- Capture additional logging information on NetBackup jobs
- Support for multiple VERITAS master server connections
- Preparing NetBackup processes based on business calendars such as daily
incremental and weekly full backup
- Scheduling of backup processes on specific hosts or group of hosts
Users have a common way to define NetBackup processes within Tidal Enterprise
Scheduler. Each job can also be easily updated to meet your changing business and
process requirements.
How it Works
The Enterprise Adapter for VERITAS NetBackup is installed on the VERITAS NetBackup server
in the data center along with a Tidal Enterprise Scheduler agent. The Enterprise Adapter
can then be used to launch and monitor NetBackup requests on a VERITAS master server. The
internal policies, schedules and host information defined within NetBackup are used to
identify the specifics of each backup request initiated from Tidal Enterprise Scheduler.
Upon submission of each backup request, Tidal Software monitors the execution of each
request and continuously updates users with real-time status information.
The Enterprise Adapter enforces the existing security policies, user names and passwords
that control the NetBackup jobs. The logging information produced during and after the
NetBackup job is available for display or file printing from within Tidal Enterprise
Scheduler. Tidal Software can now monitor and manage all NetBackup requests and provide
centralized scheduling control over every NetBackup master server on the enterprise.
The Enterprise Adapter for VERITAS NetBackup allows you to centrally manage VERITAS
processing from a single point-of-control. With this technology, a scheduled backup can
execute based on the completion status of other jobs running on any platform or applications
supported by Tidal Software. For example, users can ensure that the right data will be
correctly backed up once a critical UNIX or SAP process has completed. Current Tidal
Enterprise Scheduler customers can leverage existing NetBackup data backup processes by
incorporating them into a true enterprise-wide scheduling solution and managing them from a
single console. Additionally, the VERITAS NetBackup application can share data with all the
other strategic systems and applications in your environment.
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