Manage protection of applications

You can manage protection of applications by viewing policies, viewing backups, viewing the changes to database layout, policies, and resource group, and monitoring all the operations from the BlueXP UI.

View policies

You can view all the policies. For each of these policies, when you view the details all the associated applications are listed.

  1. Click Backup and recovery > Applications.

  2. From the Settings drop-down, click Policies.

  3. Click View Details corresponding to policy whose details you want to view.

    The associated applications are listed.

    Note You cannot edit or delete a policy, which is associated with an application.

You can also view cloud extended SnapCenter policies, by running the Get-SmResources cmdlet in SnapCenter.
The information regarding the parameters that can be used with the cmdlet and their descriptions can be obtained by running Get-Help command_name.

View backups on cloud

You can view the backups on cloud in the BlueXP UI.

  1. Click Backup and recovery > Applications.

  2. Click icon to select the action corresponding to the application and click View Details.

Important The time taken for the backups to be listed depends on ONTAP’s default replication schedule.

  • For Oracle databases, both data and log backups, system change number (SCN) for each backup, end date for each backup are listed. You can select only the data backup and restore the database to on-premises SnapCenter Server.

  • For Microsoft SQL Server databases, only the full backups and the end date for each backup are listed. You can select the backup and restore the database to on-premises SnapCenter Server.

  • For Microsoft SQL Server instance, backups of the databases under that instance is listed.

  • For SAP HANA databases, only the data backups and the end date for each backup are listed. You can select the backup and perform mount operation.

Note The backups created before enabling cloud protection are not listed for restore.

You can also view these backups by running the Get-SmBackup cmdlet in SnapCenter.
The information regarding the parameters that can be used with the cmdlet and their descriptions can be obtained by running Get-Help command_name.

Database layout change

When volumes are added to the database, SnapCenter Server labels the snapshots on the new volumes automatically as per the policy and the schedule. These new volumes will not have the object store endpoint and you should refresh the volumes by executing the following steps:

  1. Click Backup and recovery > Applications.

  2. From the Settings drop-down, click SnapCenter Servers.

  3. Click icon to select the action corresponding to the SnapCenter Server hosting the application and click Refresh.

    The new volumes are discovered.

  4. Click icon to select the action corresponding to the application and click Refresh Protection to enable cloud protection for the new volume.

    • If a storage volume is removed from the application after configuring the cloud provider, for new backups SnapCenter Server labels the snapshots on which the application is residing.

    • You should manually delete the object store relationship if the removed volume is not used by any other applications.

    • If you update the application inventory, it will contain the current storage layout of the application.

Policy or resource group change

If there is a change to the SnapCenter policy or resource group, you should refresh the protection relationship.

  1. Click Backup and recovery > Applications.

  2. Click icon to select the action corresponding to the application and click Refresh Protection.

Unregister SnapCenter Server

  1. Click Backup and recovery > Applications.

  2. From the Settings drop-down, click SnapCenter Servers.

  3. Click icon to select the action corresponding to the SnapCenter Server and click Unregister.

Monitor Jobs

Jobs are created for all the Cloud Backup operations. You can monitor all the jobs and all the sub tasks that are performed as part of each task.

  1. Click Backup and recovery > Job Monitoring.

    When you initiate an operation, a window appears stating that the job is initiated. You can click the link to monitor the job.

  2. Click the primary task to view the sub tasks and status of each of these sub tasks.

Configure CA Certificates

If you have CA certificates, you should manually copy the root CA certificates to the connector machine.

Steps

  1. Copy the certificate to the volume that can be accessed from the docker agent.

    • cd /var/lib/docker/volumes/cloudmanager_snapcenter_volume/_data/mkdir sc_certs

    • chmod 777 sc_certs

  2. Copy the RootCA certificate files to the above folder on the connector machine.

    cp <path on connector>/<filename> /var/lib/docker/volumes/cloudmanager_snapcenter_volume/_data/sc_certs

  3. Copy the CRL file to the volume which can be accessed from the docker agent.

    • cd /var/lib/docker/volumes/cloudmanager_snapcenter_volume/_data/mkdir sc_crl

    • chmod 777 sc_crl

  4. Copy the CRL files to the above folder on the connector machine.

    cp <path on connector>/<filename> /var/lib/docker/volumes/cloudmanager_snapcenter_volume/_data/sc_crl

  5. After copying the certificates and CRL files, restart the Cloud Backup for Apps service.

    • sudo docker exec cloudmanager_snapcenter sed -i 's/skipSCCertValidation: true/skipSCCertValidation: false/g' /opt/netapp/cloudmanager-snapcenter-agent/config/config.yml

    • sudo docker restart cloudmanager_snapcenter