About installing the Oracle Agent

Last published : Apr 02, 2026
The Oracle Agent protects local or remote Oracle instances. The Oracle Agent is installed as part of the Agent for Applications and Databases, which is installed with Backup Exec Silver and Gold editions.
To protect local or remote Oracle instances, you must install the following Backup Exec options:
  • Backup Exec Agent for Windows on remote Windows computers.
    Note: If you upgrade a previous version of the Agent for Windows on an Oracle server, you must restart the Oracle server after the upgrade. Backup Exec jobs cannot complete successfully until you restart the Oracle server.
See Methods for installing the Agent for Windows.
  • Backup Exec Agent for Linux on remote Linux computers.
See About installing the Agent for Linux.
  • The Agent for Applications and Databases on the Backup Exec server.
See Installing additional agents and features to the local Backup Exec server.