About the agentless feature
If you want NetBackup to discover and protect assets on a host, but you want to minimize the vendor software footprint on the hosts, consider CloudPoint's agentless feature. Typically, when you use an agent, the software remains on the host at all times. In contrast, the agentless feature works as follows:
The CloudPoint software accesses the host through SSH on Linux and WMI and SMB in case of Windows.
CloudPoint performs the specified task, such as creating a snapshot.
When the task completes, CloudPoint software stops the process.
The CloudPoint agentless feature currently discovers and operates on Windows or Linux file system assets, Oracle database, Ms SQL and MongoDB database assets.