Management Agents

Installing Management Agents

To manage and monitor Veeam backup agents, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam ONE, and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 within your company's infrastructure, you must install VSPC management agents on the machines hosting managed Veeam products and configure these agents to communicate with VSPC. Agents are available for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

You can also use management agents installed on Windows and Linux machines as master agents for discovery within your company's infrastructure.

To perform this task, a user must be assigned one of the following roles: Company Owner, Company Administrator, or Location Administrator.

Once the VSPC agent installation is complete, the managed machines will be listed under the Discovered Computers tab.

Installing Management Agents VSPC for Windows

To install the VSPC management agent, complete the following steps:

1. Navigate to Managed Computers from the left navigation menu;
2. Switch to the Discovered Computers tab;
3. At the top of the computer list, click Download Management Agent and select the OS type: Windows;
4. In the Download Management Agent for Windows/Linux/Mac dialog that appears, configure the management agent settings:
5. In the Location drop-down list, select the company location (can be left default);
6. In the Token expiry period field, specify the time window during which the management agent must be verified. Management agents installed after this expiration period will not be able to connect automatically to the Veeam Service Provider Console, requiring manual verification. Previously connected management agents will not be affected. It is recommended to set an expiration period of no more than 6 months;
7. Click Download. (The installation package will be saved to your computer's default downloads directory);
8. Run the downloaded installer;
9. Follow the steps in the Veeam Service Provider Console Management Agent setup wizard;
10. On the final step of the wizard, click Install (The agent will be installed to the following path: %ProgramFiles%\Veeam\Availability Console\CommunicationAgent).

The Veeam Service Provider Console Management Agent will automatically connect to the Veeam Service Provider Console using the assigned company configuration.

Installing Management Agents VSPC for Linux

1. To install the VSPC management agent, complete the following steps:
2. Navigate to Managed Computers from the left navigation menu;
   Switch to the Discovered Computers tab;
   At the top of the computer list, click Download Management Agent and select the OS type: Linux;
3. In the Download Management Agent for Windows/Linux/Mac dialog that appears, configure the management agent settings:
4. In the Location drop-down list, select the company location (can be left default);
5. In the Token expiry period field, specify the time window during which the management agent must be verified. Management agents installed after this expiration period will not be able to connect automatically to the Veeam Service Provider Console, requiring manual verification. Previously connected management agents will not be affected. It is recommended to set an expiration period of no more than 6 months;
6. Click Download. (The installation package will be saved to your computer's default downloads directory);
7. Copy the agent installer file to the target machine where you want to install the management agent;
8. Make the installer executable using the command:

1. Install the agent using the following command:

where:

• <…> — path to the directory containing the installer file.
• <имя_компании> — name of the company assigned to the management agent.

The Veeam Service Provider Console Management Agent will automatically connect to the Veeam Service Provider Console using the assigned company configuration.