This article discusses how to install Altaro Hyper-V host agent. Troubleshoot the fact that the Hyper-V host agent has not been installed. The below steps will fix the error: failed to install and configure the Altaro Hyper-V host agent. I will show you how to manually install the Altaro Hyper-V Host Agent.
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Setup The Microsoft Hyper-V host agent has not been set up successfully. Please note that .NET Framework is required for setup.

Hyper-V Host Agent Altaro Deployment Troubleshooting
This article is designed to help you with common issues/failures that may happen when automatically deploying the Hyper-V Host agents through the Altaro Management Console. Here you can find a list of common failures when we install the Altaro Hyper-V Host Agent and how to fix each failure.
The Hyper-V host machine should have the full .NET 4.7.2 installation
Altaro VM Backup requires .NET Framework 4.7.2 to be installed on each host machine. Make sure .NET Framework is installed; if not, you can find the installation by following the link How to Download and Install .NET Framework.
The Hyper-V host system and Altaro server have a time offset.
Correct the time and time zone of both the Hyper-V host and Altaro VM backup server.
To manually install the Altaro Hyper-V Host Agent on the Hyper-V Host, please follow the below steps.
Installing Altaro VM Backup
To download the Altaro Hyper-V Host Agent installer, visit the Altaro Website.
Copy the downloaded Altarovmbackupsetup_hostagent file over to the Hyper-V host system that you wish to backup.
Install Altaro Hyper-V Host Agent
Launch the setup file to install the Altaro Hyper-V host agent.

Altaro VM backup setup Welcome screen of the installer; click next.

Accept the license, and then click Next.

Altaro VM Backup will be installed in the Program Files folder; click next.

Ready to install the Hyper-V host agent? Click Install.

Once the Altaro Hyper-V host agent installation is done, you will see the successful installation screen.

Once the Altaro host agent is installed, go back to the machine running Altaro Hyper-V Backup, open the Altaro Management Console, and then go to the host screen
Under Hyper-V host agent, click on the install button and then enter administrator credentials. The Altaro Hyper-V Host Agent application will be detected immediately.

Preparing to install the Hyper-V host agent.

Finally, the Altaro Hyper-V host agent is installed and running.
