Does the SAP agent entitle you to the oracle agent?

[levyg]

Hi, I'm sure I heard somewhere that having the backupexec SAP agents entitled you to the Oracle agents if you wanted to use these instead. Is this true?

I need to rebuild our backup server. When our SAP system was setup I remember it being very difficult to setup the SAP agent. A SAP basis guy worked on it for days before it would work. The documentation for installing the sap agent at the time was shockingly poor from what I was told. I thought it might be easier if I just installed oracle agents instead of using the sap agent. If in backupexec I go to HELP > ABOUT > LICENCE INFO It says we're licenced for agent for oracle on windows or linux server although I can find no evidence we've ever purchased oracle agents.

Thanks for any help
Graham

[RahulG]

Have a look on the following document 300107 Backup Exec Agent for SAP supports online/offline backup of SAP with MaxDB or Oracle as the underlying database (backend). It provides protection for local and remote protection of the latest versions of SAP™ databases using the SAP (BC-BRI BACKINT) interface while enabling you to efficiently manage your data.

 following are some documents for you reference
http://support.veritas.com/docs/300106 How the SAP Agent works
http://support.veritas.com/docs/307346  How to install the Symantec Backup Exec Agent for SAP Applications in Backup Exec 12.x?
http://support.veritas.com/docs/310294 About backing up and restoring with the SAP Agent provides both local and remote protection of the

[RahulG]

look for the following point in document http://support.veritas.com/docs/300107
'To use RMAN to back up SAP for Oracle databases, you must have both the SAP Agent and the Symantec Backup Exec Agent for Oracle on Windows or Linux Servers (Oracle Agent)."
You might have the Oracle agent installed in evalaution