Dpm 2007 agent manual install

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Plans and Pricing. NET Framework 3. When creating DPMSetup. Lines beginning with the hash are commented out, and DPM setup uses the default values. Create the security groups and accounts needed for DPM. For each group use the default setting for Scope Global and Group type Security :. Then on the primary domain controller create a domain user account with the lowest possible credentials.

Assign it a strong password that doesn't expire and add it to the local administrators group. You can name this user account anything that you want; however, for the purposes of easily identifying the account's purpose, you might want to give it a significant name, such as DPMSQLSvcsAcct. Then create the security groups and user accounts needed for the SQL Server database with scope: global and Group type: security.

Log onto the domain controller on which you want to install DPM using the domain user account that you created earlier. Start to install SQL Server. You'll need to stop and restart the SQL Server service.

This account must be a member of the local Administrators group on the domain controller where the remote instance is installed. Click New Query , copy the text below to the right pane, and then press F5 to run the query. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported.

Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Is this page helpful? Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Like anti-viruses, you can update your OS image with the DPM protection agent installation so that it is ready to protect when a computer is brought up with this image. Run DpmAgentInstaller.

Log on as a domain user with administrator permissions on the machine. Run Attach-ProductionServer. If the computer containing data you want to back up is behind a firewall you'll need to set up firewall exceptions. If the computer isn't behind a firewall, or you've configured firewall exceptions to allow access, you can Install the agent from the DPM console.

Alternatively if you don't have access through the firewall, the computer you want to protect is in a workgroup or untrusted domain, or you simply need to use a different installation method, you can Install the agent manually and then Attach the agent. For a protection agent to communicate with the DPM server through a firewall, firewall exceptions are required.

Configure an incoming exception for sqlservr. The report server listens for HTTP requests on port The following table lists the protocols and ports required for communication between the DPM server and protected servers and clients. Add the required computer. After the first installation, DPM stores the list of computers in its database, which is updated once each day by the auto-discovery process.

The Advanced button page is enabled only when there is more than one version of a protection agent available for installation on the computers. You can use this option to install a previous version of the protection agent that was installed before you upgraded DPM server to a more recent version.

On the Enter Credentials page, type the user name and password for a domain account that is a member of the local Administrators group on all selected computers. In the Domain box, accept or type the domain name of the user account that you are using to install the protection agent on the target computer.

This account may belong to the domain that the DPM server is located in or to a domain that has a two-way trust relationship with the domain that the DPM server is located in. If you're installing a protection agent on a computer across a trusted domain, enter your current domain user credentials. You can be a member of any domain that has a two-way trust relationship with the domain that the DPM server and you must be member of the local Administrators group on all selected computers on which you want to install an agent.

If you select a node in a cluster, DPM detects all additional nodes in the cluster and displays the Select Cluster Nodes page. On the Select Cluster Nodes page, select an option that you want DPM to use for installing agents on additional nodes in the cluster, and then click Next. On the Choose Restart Method page, select the method to use to restart the selected computers after the protection agent is installed.

The computer must be restarted before you can start protecting data. A restart is necessary to load the volume filter that DPM uses to track and transfer block-level changes between the DPM server and the protected computers.