About managing the Norton Ghost Agent through Windows Services

The Norton Ghost Agent is a Windows service that runs in the background.

It provides the following:

Locally running scheduled backup jobs, even when there are no users, or an unprivileged user, logged on to the computer
Allows administrators to remotely back up computers throughout an enterprise from Norton Ghost running on another computer.

To use the features of Norton Ghost, the Norton Ghost Agent must be started and properly configured. You can use the Windows Services tool to manage and troubleshoot the agent.

Note:

To manage the Norton Ghost Agent, you must be logged on as a local administrator.

You can manage the Norton Ghost Agent in the following ways:

Start, stop, or disable the Norton Ghost Agent on local and remote computers.

See Starting or stopping the Norton Ghost Agent service.
Configure the user name and password that is used by the Norton Ghost Agent.

See Controlling access to Norton Ghost .
Set up recovery actions to take place if the Norton Ghost Agent fails to start.

For example, you can restart the Norton Ghost Agent automatically or restart the computer.

See Setting up recovery actions when the Norton Ghost Agent does not start.