The following steps will illustrate the process of installing DPM agent in two different ways.
Option 2 – installing the agent manually
You can perform a manual installation in two different ways:
- By providing the FQDN of the DPM server when running the
DpmAgentInstaller
executable - By providing the NetBIOS name of the DPM server using
setdpmserver.exe
if the DPM agent is already installed but not configured
Now follow these steps:
- On the computer that you want to protect, open an elevated command window, and then run
net use Z: \\<DPMServerName>\d$
, where Z
is the local drive letter that you want to assign and<DPMServerName>
is the name of the DPM server that will protect the computer. d$
is where DPM software is installed. - For a 64-bit computer, type the following:
cd /d <assigned drive letter>:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2019\DPM\DPM\ProtectionAgents\RA\5.0.<build number>.0\amd64
Here, <assigned drive letter>
is the drive letter that you assigned in the previous step and <build number>
is the latest DPM build number. For example:
cd /d "Z:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2019\DPM\DPM\ProtectionAgents\RA\5.0.158.0\amd64"
For a 32-bit computer, type the following:
cd /d <assigned drive letter>:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2019\DPM\DPM\ProtectionAgents\RA\5.0.<build number>.0\i386
Here, <assigned drive letter>
is the drive that you mapped in the previous step and <build number>
is the latest DPM build number.
To install the protection agent for a 64-bit computer, run the following command:
DPMAgentInstaller_x64.exe <DPMServerName>
Here, <DPMServerName>
is the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the DPM server.
- To install the protection agent for a 32-bit computer, run the following command:
DPMAgentInstaller_x86.exe <DPMServerName>
Here, <DPMServerName>
is the FQDN of the DPM server.
- Select
I accept the license terms and conditions
for the Microsoft Software License Terms, and click OK
. - The installation will start and you will receive a confirmation message that states
Agent installation completed successfully
. The DPM agent has now been configured and the appropriate firewall exceptions have been made in the domain profile of the Windows Firewall. Press Enter key to close the window.
Note
To perform a silent installation and to accept the EULA license in a silent installation , you can use the /q
and /IAcceptEULA
options after the command. For example: DPMAgentInstaller_x64.exe /q <DPMServerName> /IAcceptEULA
.
- If the DPM agent is already installed, you should run the
setdpmserver.exe
executable with the –dpmservername
switch to configure the DPM server that the DPM agent should report to as follows:
Setdpmserver –dpmservername DPM2019
Note
When using the SetDpmServer
executable, you only need the NetBIOS
name of the DPM server.
After installing the agent manually, you must attach the DPM agent to the DPM server. You can do this via the DPM Administrator console or via the DPM PowerShell cmdlet.
- Open the DPM console and go to
Management
. Click on Production Servers
and, at the top-left corner of the console, click on the Add
button to start the Production Server Addition Wizard
.
- Under the
Select Agent Deployment Method
page, click Attach agents
, followed by Computer on trusted domain
. Click the Next >
button to continue:
Note
If you want to attach a DPM agent in a workgroup or untrusted domain, please refer to Chapter 8, Protecting Workgroups and Untrusted Domains, for more information.
- In the
Select Computers
page, choose the server that you would like to attach to the DPM server and click on Next >
to continue.
Note
You can also provide a list of servers that you would like to have attached. The list should have all of the FQDN of every server per row in a simple text file. Click on the Add From File...
button to import the files' data.
- In the
Enter Credentials
page, enter the credentials that should be used to execute this process. Keep in mind that the credentials you provide must have administrative rights on the server that you are trying to attach. Provide the credentials and click on Next >
to continue. - In the
Summary
page, verify the configuration and click on Attach
to start. - Verify that the
Attach protected computer
task has been successful. Click Close
to close the Protection Agent Installation Wizard
. - The
Agent
will appear in the DPM console and report back with status OK
.