Unattended windows agent migration, Specifying the management server list for an agent – Symantec Critical System User Manual

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Migrating to the latest version

Migrating legacy installations of Symantec Critical System Protection

If you changed the name of the database owner account during a Production
installation, you should enter that account name during the upgrade as well.
You should not use the sa account during the upgrade.

Unattended Windows agent migration

You can perform an unattended migration of Windows agents using the
agent.exe or agent-windows-nt.exe executable and InstallShield and Windows
Installer commands.

The following examples show a command string:

agent.exe /s /v"/qn /l*v!+ %temp%\SISAgentSetup.log"

or

agent-windows-nt.exe /s /v"/qn /l*v!+ %temp%\SISAgentSetup.log"

See

“Unattended agent installation”

on page 59.

Specifying the management server list for an agent

This section explains how to use the agent config tool to specify the primary
management server and optional alternate management servers for an agent.

See

“About simple failover”

on page 25.

You use the agent config tool to do the following:

After upgrading to Symantec Critical System Protection agent 5.1.1 or
higher, add alternate management servers to an agent’s configuration

Change the primary or alternate management servers used by an agent

Change the fail back interval used by an agent

Display the current management server list and fail back interval used by
an agent

Test the connection information for a management server

The agent config tool is located in the following directories on an agent
computer:

On Windows, sisipsconfig.exe is located in the agent/ips/bin directory.

On UNIX-based operating systems, the sisipsconfig tool is named
sisipsconfig.sh. It is located in the agent/ips directory.

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