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  2. NetBackup™ Snapshot Manager for Cloud Install and Upgrade Guide
  3. Section I. NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Cloud installation and configuration
  4. Configuration for protecting assets on cloud hosts/VM
  5. Protecting assets with NetBackup Snapshot Manager's agentless feature
  6. Configuring the agentless feature
NetBackup™ Snapshot Manager for Cloud Install and Upgrade Guide

Configuring the agentless feature

Verify all the prerequisites before you configure the NetBackup Snapshot Manager agentless feature.

See Prerequisites for the agentless configuration.

To configure the agentless feature

  1. Sign in to the NetBackup Web UI and from the left navigation pane, click Workloads > Cloud and then select the Virtual machines tab.
  2. From the list of assets, search for the host on which you want to use the agentless feature.

    Note:

    The NetBackup Snapshot Manager agentless feature currently discovers and operates on Windows or Linux file system assets, Oracle database and MS SQL database assets.

  3. Click to select the host and then click Connect in the top bar.

Note:

If you have not assigned any credential to the VM, a message prompts you to assign the credentials before you can connect the VM. See the Managing Credentials section, in the Web UI Administrator's Guide.

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