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  3. Section VII. Data Collector Installation and Configuration for Cohesity NetBackup
  4. Centralized Data Collector for NetBackup - Prerequisites, Installation, and Configuration
  5. Step-1: Choose operating system and complete prerequisites
  6. Additional prerequisites

Additional prerequisites

  • Windows Only Requirement - If a Data Collector is required to collect data from Cohesity NetBackup Primary Server running on Windows System to non-English (United States) locale:

    • A Windows user must be created with the Administrators group of Windows system that will run the data Collector with culture set to English-US, and Region and Language set to English -US.

    • The current system locale must be set to the same language as the NetBackup Primary Server.

  • For performance reasons, do not install Data Collectors on the same server as the Portal.

  • Install only one Data Collector on a server (or OS instance).

  • For Cohesity NetBackup collection, the Data Collector server and backup server can be in different time zones.

  • Uses ports 443, 1556, and 13724 WMI range of ports, Linux ssh 22

  • The NetBackup Event Monitor probe, enabled on the Data Collector policy screen, uses the nb_monitor_util executable. This executable is installed by default for all installations. It can be found in the /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies directory on Linux and \Program Files\Veritas\Netbackup\bin\goodies on Windows. The Event Monitor probe collects events generated by the nb_monitor_util and handles create/update/delete events for Backup Policy, Storage Unit, Storage Unit Group and Storage Lifecycle Policy.

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