Liveupdate for remote agents?

[porkchopexpress]

I notice that you can use liveupdate on backup servers which is a big improvement over CA, i can't see it on the servers that have remote agents installed how do i make sure the agent is upto date with patches or is that handled by the server that deployed the agent?

Using Backup Exec 11D on 2003 Server.

Thanks.

 

[hmallett]

The remote agents don't update themselves at all.
The media server can use Liveupdate to download and install patches, and also notify you when they're available through alerts. Note that updates will generally ask for a reboot of the media server.
If the updates affect te remote agent at all, you should redeploy the remote agents in the way you did the orignal installation.
To find out if you need to redeploy remote agents, you can check the Technote for the hotfix on the Symantec support site. I don't think the Liveupdate will warn you if an remote agent needs updating.
Remote agent updates don't require a reboot unless you use AOFO.

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