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July 8th, 2014 08:00

need path and command to start the DPA agent

i am unable to locate where to execute the command to start the agent.

Also need to have the command to validate I am using it properly

sorry.. I am not very Linux intuitive

DPA ver 6.0.1

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eagarg1
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Posted July 21st, 2014 14:00
Hi,

Looks like the ability to run /opt/emc/dpa/services/bin/dpa agt start|stop|restart must have been introduced in a later version (probably 6.1.0).

Try run the following command: "/opt/emc/dpa/agent/etc/dpa status". If that works you can run the same command but with stop | start | restart instead of status.

Regards,

Gareth
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eagarg1
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Posted July 10th, 2014 07:00
Hi.

With DPA 6 the default path on Linux is /opt/emc/dpa/agent/etc and in that directory you run "dpa start | stop | status".

From what I recall, with some of the later DPA 6 releases (possibly 6.1.0) you can also control the agent via the server binary. So in that case you would run /opt/emc/dpa/services/bin/dpa.sh agent start | stop | status | restart.

Regards,

Gareth
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dstarm
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Posted July 21st, 2014 08:00
Thanks Gareth, but when I run the command (either of the above) I get

EMC Data Protection Advisor

ERROR : No section specified

Usage: dpa

[options] [arguments]
See: dpa application --help
     dpa app --help

See: dpa datastore --help
     dpa ds --help

See: dpa service --help
     dpa svc --help
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dstarm
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Posted July 30th, 2014 06:00
That worked!!! thank you so much
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rjacob1
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Posted November 25th, 2014 08:00
The other option is to get to /opt/emc/dpa/agent/etc and then run "./dpa start"