Installing the OES agent

Download the applicable OES agent from the Latest Agent Releases page on the Unitrends website. After downloading the agent from the Unitrends website, perform the following procedure to install the Unitrends OES agent.

To install the Unitrends OES agent

If the backup system and OES system have not been configured for DNS with reverse lookup, add the IP address of the system to the hosts file on the OES system and add the IP address of the OES system to the hosts file on the Unitrends system.

When installing on a 64-bit OES system, the 32-bit runtime environment must be enabled (this is the default configuration).

1        Place the system agent installation file, oes_cnt, on the OES system

2        Grant execute permission to the file by running the following command:

chmod +x oes_cnt 

3        Begin the installation by executing the file:

.\oes_cnt

4        When the system agent screen is displayed, enter y to continue the installation and press enter to continue.

5        Press enter to accept the default installation directory (\usr\bp) or enter the full path where you prefer the software be installed. Respond with a y when asked if the directory can be created.

6        (Optional) Enter an email address to receive reports from the OES system. The default response for this parameter is none.

7        Enter the hostname of the backup system.

8        You are asked if your server is behind a firewall. The default answer is no, this means that all ports between the backup system and the OES system are open.

9        Select Enter to approve default port and autoexec settings.

10    After the connection is made to the TSA, enter the user name (root) and password as prompted. This will enable SMS-TSA based backups.

Note: System agent backup and restore speeds are limited by the TSAFS performance. The TSAFS performance on an NSS file system is superior to performance on a non-NSS file system by as much as 300%. For more information on improving the TSAFS performance, please view the following Novell documentation - Fine-Tuning SMS Performance.