ACRONIS Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition User Manual page 295

Other actions
Direct management operations
Create a backup plan on a
machine
Recover data
Connect to a machine
directly
Other operations
View detailed information
on a machine
View tasks existing on a
machine
View log entries of a
machine
Update all information
related to the machine
Refresh a list of machines
Adding a machine to the management server
To be able to deploy backup policies from Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server to a
managed machine and perform other centralized management operations, you need to register the
machine on the management server.
To add a machine
1. In the Navigation tree, select
2. Click Add a machine to AMS on the toolbar.
3. In the IP/Name field, enter the machine's name or its IP address, or click Browse... and browse
the network for the machine.
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actions will be performed on the machine as soon as the machine becomes
available to the management server.
Click Backup.
This operation is described in depth in the Creating a backup plan (p. 196)
section.
Click Recover.
This operation is described in depth in the Recovering data (p. 216) section.
Click Connect directly.
Establishes a direct connection to the managed machine. Enables to administer
a managed machine and perform all the direct management operations.
Click View details.
In the Machine details (p. 299) window, examine information on the machine.
Click View tasks.
The Tasks (p. 320) view will display a list of the tasks, existing on the machine.
Click View log.
The Log (p. 323) view will display a list of the machine's log entries.
Click Synchronize.
The management server will query the machine and update the database with
the most recent information. Along with synchronizing, the refresh operation
will be performed automatically in order to update the list of the machines.
Click Refresh.
The management console will update the list of machines from the
management server with the most recent information. Though the list of
machines is refreshed automatically based on events, the data may not be
retrieved immediately from the management server due to some latency.
Manual refresh guarantees that the most recent data is displayed.
Physical machines.
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