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Creating an Agent in R1Soft’s CDP 3.0 Enterprise Edition

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Creating an Agent in R1Soft’s CDP 3.0 Enterprise Edition

Following are the steps you wish to follow to create an agent in your R1Soft’s CDP 3.0 Enterprise Edition.

Step 1: Open your web browser and connect with the CDP 3.0 Enterprise Edition and log in using your login credentials.

Step 2: Click on the “Agents” button shown within the Main Menu placed under the ‘Dashboard’ within the left pane of the page.

Step 3: Then, click on “Create New Agent” shown within the Agents menu located within the top left pane.

Step 4: Once you click on “Create New Agent” a new popup window can open permitting you to set the following things:

  • Description – Enter a description for the agent.
  • Host Name – Enter a host name or IP address of the agent.
  • Port Number – Define a port in order to connect to the agent.

Step 5: For this specific agent, you’ll be able to set the Group’s special permissions. However, the groups’ permissions will only be modified when:

  • Adding an Agent
  • Editing an Agent
  • Adding a Group
  • Editing a Group

Step 6: choose a group of your alternative and define the special permissions for it. After you choose a group you’ll see many boxes within the “Groups”:

  • Full Control – gives you the ability to control everything mentioned below.
  • Editing agent’s settings
  • Browsing agent’s recovery points
  • Manipulating disk safes for agent
  • Editing agent’s users
  • Manipulating policies for agent
  • Viewing agent’s task in the task history console
  • Restoring files from agent’s recovery points

If you wish to remove a group from the agent properties window, simply click on the “X” icon shown within the red color.

Step 7: Same manner as “Groups”, you’ll be able to set special permissions for the “Users”.

Step 8: Once you are done with all the settings, click on the “Create” button at bottom of the window.

Step 9: After a moment you will see a notification window showing “Successfully created agent” message. Click on the “OK” button.

Once the Agent is created it will appear in the Agents list and the Operating System (OS) of your dedicated hosting server are going to be detected automatically.