The following steps will guide you through installing the DPM agent automatically and then manually on client computers:
- From the Start screen, select Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager. The DPM Administrator Console will load and the Monitoring task area will be highlighted.
- Select the Management task area. Click the Install icon on the ribbon bar. On the Select Agent Deployment Method page, click Install Agents radio button, and click Next.
- On the Select Computers page, enter the computer name of the client you want to protect using the FQDN and click Next.
- On the Enter Credentials page, type in the credentials for a domain account that is a member of the local administrators group on the selected client computer.
- On the Choose Restart Method page, select the most appropriate method to use to restart the selected client computer, post the deployment of the DPM agent, and click Next. On the Summary page, click Install.
The client computer must be restarted before you can start protecting data on this client. The restart is required to load the volume filter that DPM agent uses to track and transfer block-level changes between the DPM server itself and the protected client computer.
If you decide to deploy the DPM agent manually and the client computer is behind a firewall, you will need to ensure that the DPM agent can be pushed out through the firewall. With the Windows Firewall, you run the following command from an elevated Command Prompt:
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="Allow DPM Remote Agent Push" dir=in action=allow service=any enable=yes profile=any remoteip=<IPAddress>
Here IPAddress is the actual IP address of the DPM server.
- On the client computer that you want to protect, open an elevated Command Prompt window, and then type net use * \DPMServerNameDriveWhereDPMIsLocated. Then, navigate to the Microsoft System Center 2016DPMDPMProtectionAgentsRA5.0.322.0amd641033 folder for 64-bit client computers or i3861033 for 32-bit client computers.
- To manually install the protection agent, do the following:
- For a 64-bit client computer, type DpmAgentInstaller_x64.exe /q DPMServerName /IAcceptEULA, where DPMServerName is the FQDN of the DPM server
- For a 32-bit computer, type DpmAgentInstaller_x86.exe /q DPMServerName /IAcceptEULA, where DPMServerName is the FQDN of the DPM server
- If you installed the DPM agent before you added the client computer to the DPM server, you must attach the client computer before the DPM server can begin to create backups.
- From the Start screen, select Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager. The DPM Administrator Console will loads and the Monitoring task area will be highlighted.
- Select the Management task area. Click the Install icon on the ribbon bar. On the Select Agent Deployment Method page, click Attach Agents radio button. Ensure that the Computer on Trusted Domain radio button is also selected, and click Next.
- On the Select Computers page, enter the computer name of the client you want to attach to the DPM server using the FQDN and click Next.
- On the Enter Credentials page, type the credentials for a domain account that is a member of the local administrators group on the selected client computer and click Next. On the Summary page, click Attach, and then click Close.