Deployment agent

To install protection agents on remote machines from the Cyber Protect web console, at least one agent must be already installed in your environment. This agent will serve as a deployment agent for remote installation, and will connect to the management server and the target remote machine.

Usually, the first protection agent in the environment is the agent that you install together with the management server. However, you can select each Agent for Windows in the environment to be the deployment agent.

When you use autodiscovery to install protection agents on multiple machines, the deployment agent is called discovery agent.

How the deployment agent works

  1. The deployment agent connects to the management server and downloads the web_installer.exe file.
  2. The deployment agent connects to the remote machine by using the host name or the IP address of that machine, and the administrator credentials that you specify, and then uploads the web_installer.exe file to it.
  3. The web_installer.exe file runs on the remote machine in the unattended mode.

  4. Depending on the scope of the required installation, the web installer retrieves additional installation packages from the installation_files folder on the management server, and then installs them on the target machine, by using the msiexec command.

    The installation_files folder is located in:

    • Windows: \Program Files\Acronis\RemoteInstallationFiles\
    • Linux: /usr/lib/Acronis/RemoteInstallationFiles/
  5. After the installation completes, the agent is registered on the management server.