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Quick Start Guide Intended Audience This document has been prepared to assist you in becoming familiar with Recovery Manager for Active Directory Forest Edition. The Quick Start Guide contains the information required to install and use Recovery Manager for Active Directory Forest Edition. It is intended for network administrators, consultants, analysts, and any other IT professionals using the product.
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Quick Start Guide About Recovery Manager for Active Directory Forest Edition Recovery Manager Forest Edition is designed to recover the entire Active Directory forest or specific domains in the forest. The use of Recovery Manager Forest Edition helps you to minimize the downtime caused by the corruption or improper modification of Active Directory forest and data. Recovery Manager Forest Edition simplifies and automates the process of Active Directory forest or domain recovery.
Recovery Manager for Active Directory Forest Edition Licensing Recovery Manager Forest Edition licensing is based on the total number of enabled user accounts in Active Directory domains that you protect with this product. A license key file for Recovery Manager Forest Edition specifies the licensed number of user accounts in the Active Directory domains protected with the product.
Quick Start Guide Installing Recovery Manager Forest Edition This section describes how to install Recovery Manager Forest Edition. With Recovery Manager Forest Edition installed, you can perform such tasks as • Backing up data in Active Directory. This includes backing up Active Directory objects, AD LDS (ADAM) instances, cross-domain group membership data, managing backup creation settings and schedule. For detailed instructions, see the “Backing Up Data in Active Directory” section in the User Guide.
Recovery Manager for Active Directory Forest Edition Performing a Silent Installation of Recovery Manager Forest Edition A silent (or unattended) installation of Recovery Manager Forest Edition does not require any user interaction. With this method, you specify the Recovery Manager Forest Edition installation parameters at a command prompt before running the installation.
Quick Start Guide PARAMETER DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE INSTALLDIR Specifies the Recovery Manager Forest Edition installation folder. Msiexec /i "E:\Setup\Rmadfe.
Recovery Manager for Active Directory Forest Edition PARAMETER DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE VIEWER_APPLICATION_TYPE Specifies the application to be used for viewing Recovery Manager Forest Edition reports. Msiexec /i "E:\Setup\Rmadfe.msi" /qb SQLSERVER="\ " VIEWER_APPLICATION_TYPE="" You can use one of the following values: • local. Specifies to use Quest Reports Viewer installed on the Recovery Manager Forest Edition computer. • remote.
Quick Start Guide Removing Recovery Manager Forest Edition To remove Recovery Manager Forest Edition 1. Click Start, click Run, type appwiz.cpl, and press ENTER. 2. Do one of the following: • • Under Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, select Quest Recovery Manager for Active Directory Forest Edition in the list, and click Remove. Under Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, select Quest Recovery Manager for Active Directory Forest Edition in the list, and click Uninstall.
Recovery Manager for Active Directory Forest Edition Installing Backup Agent Recovery Manager Forest Edition allows you to back up computer collections using Backup Agent preinstalled on each target domain controller (DC). The advantages of using preinstalled Backup Agent are as follows: • Performing a backup without having domain administrator privileges. It is sufficient if Recovery Manager Forest Edition runs under a backup operator's credentials.
Quick Start Guide The table below describes the parameters you can use to perform a silent installation of Backup Agent. PARAMETER DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE ERDPORT Specifies the target DC TCP port number to be used for Backup Agent traffic. Msiexec /i "C:\Backupagent.msi" ERDPORT=3355 /qn If this parameter is omitted, TCP port 3843 is used by default. FIREWALL_SETTINGS_CONFIGURE Specifies whether or not to configure Windows Firewall on a Windows Server 2008-based target DC to allow Backup Agent traffic.
Recovery Manager for Active Directory Forest Edition By default, Recovery Manager Forest Edition uses TCP port 3843 to connect to Backup Agent. If you have specified a different port number, or if you have changed the port number after installing Backup Agent, for Recovery Manager Forest Edition to work properly, perform the following steps: 1. Start the Recovery Manager console (snap-in). In the console tree, select Recovery Manager for Active Directory, and click Settings on the Action menu. 2.
Quick Start Guide Monitoring Recovery Manager Forest Edition Using Microsoft Operations Manager The Management Pack supplied with this release of Recovery Manager for Active Directory Forest Edition is a solution that allows you to monitor the backup and restore operations performed with Recovery Manager Forest Edition. You can also use this Management Pack to monitor the health and availability of the Recovery Manager console, Computer Collections, and computers added to Computer Collections.
Recovery Manager for Active Directory Forest Edition Importing the Management Pack To start using the Recovery Manager Forest Edition Management Pack, you need to import it into Microsoft Operations Manager. To do so, complete the steps provided in this section for your version of Operations Manager. For more information about importing, using, and removing Management Packs, refer to the documentation supplied with your version of Microsoft Operations Manager.
Quick Start Guide Configuring Recovery Manager Forest Edition for Working with the Management Pack To monitor Recovery Manager Forest Edition, this Management Pack relies on the event messages the product writes to the Windows application log for existing Computer Collections. Therefore, in order you could effectively use this Management Pack, make sure that Recovery Manager Forest Edition is properly configured to write events about the Computer Collections you want to monitor.
Recovery Manager for Active Directory Forest Edition RULE DEFAULT SETTING Collect Offline Restore Has Completed Successfully Events (Recovery Manager Console) Disabled Collect Backup Creation Has Started Events (Recovery Manager Console) Disabled Collect Backup Creation Has Completed with Warnings Events (Recovery Manager Console) Disabled Alert on Backup Creation Completed with Errors (Recovery Manager Console) Enabled Collect Backup Creation Has Failed Events (Recovery Manager Console) Enabled
