Rapid Recovery 6.4 - User Guide

Deploying an upgrade of the Rapid Recovery Agent software to protected machines

You can use the Deploy Agent Software Wizard to push an upgrade of the Rapid Recovery Agent software to Windows machines that are already protected by the local Rapid Recovery Core.

1. From the Rapid Recovery Core Console button bar, click the Protect drop-down menu, and then select Deploy Agent Software.
   The Deploy Agent Software Wizard opens.
2. On the Connection page of the wizard, from the Source drop-down list, select Local Core.
3. Click Next.
4. On the Machines page of the wizard, select the protected machines to which you want to deploy an upgrade of the Rapid Recovery Agent software.

   NOTE: At this time, you cannot use this process to update protected Linux machines.

5. Best practice is to restart each machine after installing or updating the Agent software. If you want to restart the machines after deploying, leave the default option After Agent installation, restart the machines automatically (Recommended). If you do not want to restart upgraded machines immediately, clear this option.
6. Click Finish.
   The system automatically verifies each machine that you selected.

   If Rapid Recovery detects any concerns during automatic verification, the wizard progresses to a Warnings page, where you can clear machines from selection and manually verify the selected machines. If the machines you added pass the automatic verification, they appear on the Deploy Agent to Machines pane.

7. If the Warning page appeared, and you are still satisfied with your selections, click Finish again.

Deploying to machines manually

Use the following procedure to deploy the Rapid Recovery Agent to multiple machines on any type of host other than the local Core, Active Directory, vCenter/ESXi, or Hyper-V.

1. From the Rapid Recovery Core Console button bar, click the Protect drop-down menu, , and then select Deploy Agent Software.
   The Deploy Agent Software Wizard opens.
2. On the Connection page of the wizard, from the Source drop-down list, select Manually.
3. Click Next.
4. On the Machines page of the wizard, for each machine to which you want to deploy Agent, enter the machine details in the dialog box. Press Enter to separate information for each machine. Use the format hostname::username::password::port. For Windows machines, the port setting is optional. For Linux machines, always include the SSH port, which by default is 22. Examples include:

   	10.255.255.255::administrator::&11@yYz90z

   	abc-host-00-1::administrator::99!zU$o83r::8006

   	Linux-host-00-2::administrator::p@$$w0rD::22

5. If you want to restart the machines automatically after deployment, select After Agent installation, restart the machines automatically (Recommended).
6. Click Finish.
   The system automatically verifies each machine that you selected.

   If Rapid Recovery detects any concerns during automatic verification, the wizard progresses to a Warnings page, where you can clear machines from selection and manually verify the selected machines. If the machines you added pass the automatic verification, they appear on the Deploy Agent to Machines pane.

7. If the Warning page appeared, and you are still satisfied with your selections, click Finish again.

Verifying the deployment to multiple machines

1. From the Rapid Recovery Core Console, click (Events), and then click Alerts.
   Alert events appear in the list, showing the time the event initiated and a message. For each successful deployment of the Agent software, you will see an alert indicating that the protected machine has been added.
2. Optionally, click on any link for a protected machine.

   The Summary page for the selected machine appears, showing pertinent information including:

   • the host name of the protected machine
   • the last snapshot, if applicable
   • the time of the next scheduled snapshot, based on the protection schedule for the selected machine
   • the encryption key, if any, used for this protected machine
   • the version of the software.

Modifying deploy settings

1. From the Rapid Recovery Core Console, click (Settings).
2. On the Settings page, in the left column, click Deploy to navigate to the Deploy section.
3. Modify any of the following options by clicking the setting you want to change to make it editable as a text box or drop-down list, and then click to save the setting.

   Table 44: Deploy options

   Option	Description
   Agent installer name	Enter the name of the agent executable file. The default is Agent-web.exe.
   Core address	Enter the address for the Core.
   Failed receive timeout	Enter the number of minutes to wait without activity before timeout.
   Maximum parallel installs	Enter a number for the maximum installations you want to install simultaneously. The default and limit is 100.