Local, remote and centralized management

Advanced editions of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 enable you to perform local, remote and centralized management of any machine where an Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 agent is installed.

Local management

For local management, you install the command-line utility on the same machine where the Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 agent is installed. The operations are performed under the user account you are logged on with.

Example

To view all disks of the local machine, run the following command:

acrocmd list disks

Remote management

For remote management, you install the command-line utility on the machine from which you prefer to operate (run commands or scripts).

Along with the command, you specify:

• the IP address or host name of the remote machine that has an Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 agent (--host)
• credentials (a pair of user name and password) for access to that machine

The user whose credentials you specify must be a member of the Acronis Remote Users security group on that machine. The operations are performed under this user account.

Example

To view all disks of a remote machine, run the following command:

acrocmd list disks --host=<IP address or hostname> --credentials=<user name>,<password>

Centralized management

Commands on a machine

Through Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Management Server, you can manage any registered machine using the credentials of the management server's administrator. Credentials for each remote machine are not required.

For a number of commands, you can specify comma-separated addresses of multiple machines. The operation will be executed on all the specified machines one after another.

Along with the command, you specify:

• the IP address or host name of the machine that has an Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 agent (--address)
• the IP address or host name of the management server (--host)
• the name of the management server service (--service=ams)
• credentials for access to the management server

The user whose credentials you specify must be a member of the Acronis Centralized Admins security group on the management server. If you are running the command-line utility on a different machine, the user must also be a member of the Acronis Remote Users security group on the management server.

The operations on the machine are performed under the account of the agent service running on that machine (Acronis Agent User account).

Example

To view all disks of a machine through the management server, run the following command:

acrocmd list disks --host=<ams hostname> --credentials=<user name>,<password> --service=ams --address=<IP address or hostname>

Commands on the management server

There are commands that can be executed by the management server itself.

Example

To view the current activities of the management server, run the following command:

acrocmd list activities --host=<ams hostname> --credentials=<user name>,<password> --service=ams

The below diagram shows options of access to a managed machine directly or via Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Management Server.

Options of access to a managed machine