Error ID: 400

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Applies To: System Center 2012 - Data Protection Manager, System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager, System Center 2012 SP1 - Data Protection Manager

Error ID 400 — Data Protection Manager

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Details

Product

System Center 2012 – Data Protection Manager (DPM)

ID

400

Source

Version

4.0

Symbolic Name

Message

The DPM server was unable to retrieve information about the remote system using the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service on <ServerName>.

User Action

To resolve this error, do one of the following:

  • From the command prompt, type DPMAgentInstaller.exe*<dpmservername>* to install the protection agent on the protected computer. Then attach the protection agent to the DPM server by using the Protection Agent Installation Wizard.

  • Verify the following:

    • <ServerName> is online and remotely accessible from the DPM server.

    • If a firewall is enabled on <ServerName>, that it is not blocking WMI requests from the DPM server.

    • The WMI service on <ServerName> is running.

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