FAB Configuration

This chapter details all configurations editable within FAB.

Agent Management

Add a new agent to an existing device
Remove an agent from an existing device
Update an Agent

Add a new agent to an existing device

You may require adding a different agent to a device already backed up in FAB.
To do so simply follow the agent installation procedure described in section FAB Deployment / Component installation.
Installing a new FAB agent has no impact on any already existing ones.

Remove an agent from an existing device

If you wish to remove a FAB agent from a device, you only need to uninstall it.

Connect to the FAB Backup console and go to the Manage / Servers section
Find the device for which you wish to add a remove agent and click on its name

Click on the More actions button in the top right corner

and Uninstall Software

Select the correct agent to remove in the select menu and click on ok

Then click on uninstall

Note:All backups made with an agent will not be deleted after uninstalling this agent. Recovery points will remain available during the whole backup retention period.However, restoring to a different location will be required, as the source agent will not be available anymore.

Update an Agent

It is not required of you to organize your agents updates.
Those are pushed automatically, on a weekly basis (on Sundays), by the FAB infrastructure directly.

However, you still have the possibility to follow up your FAB protection agents update status from the FAB Backup console,
Check the agents’ status in the Manage / Servers section: