Deactivation Utility: Wgnbrb.exe

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Deactivation Utility: Wgnbrb.exe

It is possible for a system administrator to deactivate the client component on specified machines, or on all client machines known to the CMS. This is a fail-safe for CA Data Protection to ensure that, after a reboot, it will be disabled on the client machine.

This utility is provided by Wgnbrb.exe. It can be run from any server or client machine with CA Data Protection installed, but it is safest to run it from the CMS itself (the CMS will never become disabled, but see the warning below).

For full usage instructions, run wgnbrb -? from a command prompt. Typical examples are shown below:

View the status of CA Data Protection on all client machines:
```
wgnbrb -all
```
Deactivate CA Data Protection on all client machines:
```
wgnbrb -all -deactivate
```
Reactivate CA Data Protection on all client machines:
```
wgnbrb -all -reactivate
```
Deactivate CA Data Protection on a defined set of machines:
```
wgnbrb -deactivate MACHINE1 MACHINE2 MACHINE3
```
Important! You will deactivate the CMS if you forget to specify a client machine when you run Wgnbrb.exe on the CMS itself - see below.
Deactivate CA Data Protection on the CMS by running this command on the CMS:
```
wgnbrb -deactivate
```

Note: A user can run Wgnbrb.exe from on any machine providing that their Windows account on the host machine is able to write changes to the registry on the client machine(s) that they want to deactivate. Typically, this means they must be a domain administrator. Alternatively, if you do not want to grant administrator rights to a user, see MS Knowledge Base article Q186433 for an explanation of the WinReg registry key.