You can use the Recovery Manager Console to manually preinstall Backup Agent on the computers added to a particular Computer Collection. Alternatively, you can perform a silent installation of the agent.
To preinstall Backup Agent on all computers in a Computer Collection, perform the following steps:
In the Recovery Manager Console tree, expand the Computer Collections node.
Right-click the Computer Collection that includes the computers on which you want to preinstall the Backup Agent, and then select Install Backup Agent from the shortcut menu.
Follow the steps in the wizard to complete the Backup Agent installation.
To selectively preinstall Backup Agent on computers in a Computer Collection, perform the following steps:
In the Recovery Manager Console tree, expand the Computer Collections node.
Right-click the Computer Collection that includes the computers on which you want to preinstall the Backup Agent.
In the right pane, select the items representing the computers on which you want to install the Backup Agent.
Right-click the selected items, and then select Install Backup Agent from the shortcut menu.
Follow the steps in the wizard to complete the Backup Agent installation.
To perform a silent installation of the Backup Agent, perform the following steps:
Copy the Backupagent.msi file supplied in the RMAD installation package to the target computer.
On the computer to which you copied the Backupagent.msi file, enter the following syntax at a command prompt: msiexec /i "\\<TargetCompName>\<Path to the backupagent.msi file>" ERDPORT=<PortNumber> /qn
<TargetCompName> refers to the target computer network name.
<PortNumber> refers to the TCP port number you want RMAD to use to connect to Backup Agent.
By default, the silent installation uses a local system account. To install Backup Agent on a remote DC, this account must have sufficient permissions to access that DC.
Example:
msiexec /i "\\MyDC\temp\backupagent.msi" ERDPORT=3355 /qn
By default, RMAD uses the TCP port 3843 to connect to Backup Agent. If you have specified some other port number, perform the following steps:
Start the Recovery Manager Console (snap-in).
In the Recovery Manager Console tree, select Recovery Manager for Active Directory, and then click Settings on the Action menu.
On the General tab of the Properties dialog box, select the Connect to the backup agent using specific TCP port check box, and then specify the port number in the Port box.
If you have installed Microsoft Windows Firewall, the specified TCP port must be opened. You have to specify the same port number for all target DCs to be backed up.
You can use the Recovery Manager Console to discover all Backup Agent instances that were manually preinstalled on computers in existing Computer Collections. After the discover operation completes, you can view and manage the discovered Backup Agent instances by using the Backup Agent Management node in the Recovery Manager Console.
A Backup Agent instance is automatically discovered and added to the Backup Agent Management node only when you use that node to preinstall the agent.
When you preinstall a Backup Agent instance by using any other methods (for example, a silent installation), to display that agent instance in the Backup Agent Management node, you have to run the discover Backup Agent operation.
In the Recovery Manager Console tree, select the Backup Agent Management node.
From the main menu, select Action | Discover All Backup Agent Instances.
When the agent discovery operation completes, all discovered instances of Backup Agent are displayed in the Backup Agent Management node.
You can update information displayed for a particular preinstalled Backup Agent instance in the Backup Agent Management node. When you run the update operation, RMAD checks the version and status of the target Backup Agent instance, and then updates that information in the Backup Agent Management node.
You can only update information for already discovered Backup Agent instances. For instructions on how to discover Backup Agent, see Discovering preinstalled Backup Agent.
In the Recovery Manager Console tree, select the Backup Agent Management node.
In the right pane, right-click the entry representing the Backup Agent instance for which you want to update information displayed in the Backup Agent Management node.
Select Update Backup Agent Info from the shortcut menu.
In the Recovery Manager Console tree, right-click the Backup Agent Management node.
Select Update Backup Agent Info from the shortcut menu.
You can use the Recovery Manager Console to selectively upgrade Backup Agent preinstalled on the computers added to a Computer Collection. Note that you can only upgrade Backup Agent to the version supplied with the Recovery Manager Console you are using.
You can only perform this operation on already discovered preinstalled instances of the Backup Agent. For more information, see Discovering preinstalled Backup Agent.
In the Recovery Manager Console tree, select the Backup Agent Management node.
In the right pane, right-click the computer on which you want to upgrade the agent.
From the shortcut menu, select Upgrade Backup Agent and wait for the upgrade operation to complete.
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