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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ CloudPoint Install and Upgrade Guide
  3. Section I. CloudPoint installation and configuration
  4. Protecting assets with CloudPoint's agentless feature
  5. Configuring the agentless feature
Veritas NetBackup™ CloudPoint Install and Upgrade Guide

Configuring the agentless feature

Verify all the prerequisites before you configure the CloudPoint 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 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 CloudPoint agentless feature currently discovers and operates on Linux file system assets, Oracle database, and MongoDB database assets. Microsoft Windows is not supported.

  3. Click to select the host and then click the Connect button that appears in the top bar.
  4. On the Connect dialog box, select the SSH key option.
  5. Enter the SSH user name and the SSH key.
  6. Click Connect.

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