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How to Add, Import, and Export Agents and Nodes

Setting up a job in an environment with many agents and nodes can be a time-consuming and tedious task. If you have multiple agents and nodes to back up, it may take time to add the agents and nodes to the Backup Manager one at a time. The Add, Import, and Export Agents and Add, Import, and Export Nodes features let you add multiple nodes and agents using the Arcserve Backup user interface, whether the nodes and agents will be backed up.

Note: The Central Agent Admin also lets you add, import, or export agents and nodes.

You can use the Add, Import, and Export Nodes feature to add multiple nodes and agents into the system in either of the following ways:

Add multiple agents and nodes using the user interface

1. From the Backup Manager Source Tab or the Restore Manager Destination Tab, select a node.
2. Use the Add/Import/Export Nodes dialog to manually enter the names of all the nodes and agents or select the nodes from the left-pane list of nodes and agents detected by auto-discovery.
3. Specify a user name and password for the nodes.
4. Save the information in the Arcserve Backup database.
5. View the nodes and agents in the Backup Manager Source tree or the Central Agent Admin.

Add multiple nodes and agents using a .csv and .txt file

1. From the Backup Manager Source Tab or the Restore Manager Destination Tab, select a node.
2. Use the Import function on the Add/Import/Export Nodes dialog and specify the name of the .csv or .txt file from the user interface.

   The node and agent names are imported from the .csv or .txt file and are added into the system.

3. Specify a user name and password for the nodes and agents.
4. View the nodes and agents in the Backup Manager Source tree.