Dell PowerVault DP600 - Manual (Page 34)

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To disable a protection agent
1. In DPM Administrator Console, click Management on the navigation bar.
2. On the Agents tab, in the display pane, select the name of the computer with the
protection agent you want to disable.
3. In the Actions pane, click Disable protection agent.
4. In the dialog box, click OK to confirm that you want to proceed.
In This Section
Using Windows Maintenance Tools on File Servers and Workstations
Applying Operating System Updates on File Servers and Workstations
Running Antivirus Software on File Servers and Workstations
See Also
Managing Clustered File Servers
Performing File Server and Workstation Management Tasks
Using Windows Maintenance Tools on File Servers and
Workstations
In general, you can continue maintenance on file servers and workstations protected by DPM
using your regular maintenance schedule and the maintenance tools provided in the operating
system. Those tools and any impact on data protection are listed in the following table.
Windows Maintenance Tools and Protected Computers
Windows Tool Considerations
Disk Cleanup: Use to remove temporary files,
Internet cache files, and unnecessary program
files.
Running Disk Cleanup should have no adverse
affect on performance or data protection.
Disk Defragmenter: Use to analyze volumes
for the amount of fragmentation and to
defragment volumes.
Before adding a volume to a protection group,
check the volume for fragmentation, and if
necessary, defragment the volume by using
Disk Defragmenter. When protection is applied
to extremely fragmented volumes, boot times
on the protected computer might be slowed
down and protection jobs might fail.
It is recommended that you run Disk Cleanup
before running Disk Defragmenter.
Chkdsk.exe: Use to check the file system and Before you run chkdsk /f on a protected