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  1. Home
  2. Product Documentation
  3. Section IV. Adding the asset infrastructure
  4. Manage Resiliency Platform host assets
  5. Preparing host for replication
  6. Configuring Resiliency Platform host agent packages manually

Configuring Resiliency Platform host agent packages manually

You can manually install and configure Resiliency Platform host agent packages on a host before preparing it for replication using Resiliency Platform Data Mover. The host agent package zip bundle can be downloaded from an IMS.

The Resiliency Platform host agent bundle contains a configuration script which configures the host so that the specific IMS can communicate with the host without using the host credentials.

Before you begin configuring the Resiliency Platform host agent packages, download the Resiliency Platform host agent packages zip bundle from the IMS on the host and extract it at a temporary location, for example, /tmp on Linux host or c:\temp on Windows host.

See Downloading Resiliency Platform host agent packages from IMS.

To configure Resiliency Platform host agent packages manually on a host

  1. Install the packages on required host.
    • On Linux host

    • Separate folders for all supported platforms are pre-created inside Linux folder. Go to folder depending on which platform the package is to be installed. Copy VRTSitrptap-<version>.rpm to a temporary folder (for example: /tmp) on Linux host.

    • Install VRTSsfmh-<version>.rpm on Linux host.

    • Install VRTSitrptap-<version>.rpm on Linux host.

    • On Windows host

    • Copy VRTSitrptap-<version>.exe from x86_64 folder on Windows host.

    • Install VRTSsfmh-<version>.msi on Windows host.

    • Install VRTSitrptap-<version>.exe on Windows host.

    • Restart the Windows host so that the replication driver is loaded.

  2. Run the bundled script to configure the host for communication from IMS.
    • On Linux host

      Execute the ConfigureHostFor-<IMS-Hostname/IP>.pl script on Linux host as: # /opt/VRTSsfmh/bin/perl /tmp/ConfigureHostFor-<IMS-Hostname/IP>.pl --configure

    • On Windows host

      Execute the ConfigureHostFor-<IMS-Hostname/IP>.pl script on Windows host as:C:\> "C:\Program Files\Veritas\VRTSsfmh\bin\perl.exe" C:\temp\ConfigureHostFor-<IMS-Hostname/IP>.pl --configure

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