Installing Remote Agents to network machines

In this document, we will look into remote installation of the agents that are installed with the Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 server installation. This document will install the “Remote Agent for Window” and “Advanced Open file option” to the domain controller using the IP address.

Select the “Windows Remote Agents” under the remote computers and click on “Add” to add computers where we will install the agents.

Next, provide the name or IP address of the computer where we install the agents and provide the domain name, in this case we provided the IP of the domain controller

Select the agents that you need to install, in this case we selected the “Remote Agent for Windows” {selected by default} and “Advanced Open File Option” and click Finish.

Next, we select the Symantec Backup Exec media server where the publish information is stored. In our case the only server that will be displayed is the server where we installed the Symantec Backup Exec Server.

We can review our remote installation options in this screen, if we need any modifications to the list of computers or selection of add-on options we can perform this action at this stage.

Click on Install to start the installation

The install begins and will provide the updates on the installation. If any issues are faced during the remote installation the % complete will not be 100%, in such cases we need to look into the reasons and start the installation all over again.

This way we install the remote agents, you can run the similar process to install the remote agent for desktops and laptops to install the agent on the client machines on the network.