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In many cases SAP Host Agent is installed automatically. However, there are certain cases when you have to install it manually.

SAP Host Agent is installed automatically during the installation of all new SAP system instances or instances with SAP kernel 7.20 or higher.

Recommendation

The general strategy in high availability (HA) environments is to install the SAP Host Agent locally on each cluster node.

The following sections describe how you can install SAP Host Agent separately: