Enabling and Disabling Protection Agents

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Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2010

You might want to disable a protection agent that protects specific data sources when doing the following:

  • Performing maintenance tasks on the server

  • Debugging a problem that you want to eliminate the DPM agent as a potential cause

When you disable a protection agent, DPM displays a message that all protection and recovery jobs for the protected computer will fail until the agent is re-enabled.

For more information about protection agents, in the DPM 2010 Help, see What Is a Protection Agent? (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=196922).

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 computer with the protection agent that you want to disable.

    Note

    Hold down the SHIFT key to select multiple computes.

  3. In the Actions pane, click Disable protection agent.

  4. In the dialog box, click OK to confirm that you want to proceed.

To enable 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 computer with the protection agent that you want to enable.

    Note

    Hold down the SHIFT key to select multiple computers.

  3. In the Actions pane, click Enable protection agent to enable the protection agent.