This recipe covers how you can upgrade DPM agents from the DPM console and also provides information about other scenarios.
Microsoft keeps releasing updates that are critical to apply, since they contain new enhancements that will provide you with optimization of the DPM software. They also enable new restore capability features for your workload.
After you have upgraded DPM 2012 R2 to the latest DPM release, you must upgrade all of the DPM agents that are attached to the DPM server before protection can continue. This is something you need to do manually:
- Open the DPM console, select
Management
and, on the left-hand side of the console, click onAgents
. In the display pane, you will see DPM agents reportingUpdate Available
. - Right-click the agents that you want to update and choose
Update
from the drop-down list.
Note
Starting with DPM 2016 or later, once the agent has been updated, no reboot is required. DPM will continue to protect your workloads. However, we have seen some servers reboot automatically, even if the option to automatically reboot is not checked, so make sure to upgrade the agent during a maintenance window.