Dashboard
Use the Dashboard to estimate at a glance the health of data protection on the registered machines. The Dashboard displays the summary of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 agents’ activities, lets you check for free space available in managed vaults, and rapidly identify and resolve any issues.
Alerts
The alerts section draws your attention to issues that have occurred on the management server and registered machines, in centralized vaults, and offers you ways of fixing or examining them. The most critical issues are displayed at the top. If there are no alerts or warnings at the moment, the system displays “No alerts or warnings”.
Types of alerts
The table below illustrates the types of messages you may observe.
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Description
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Offer
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Comment
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Failed tasks: X
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View the tasks
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View the tasks will open the Backup plans and Tasks view with failed tasks, where you can examine the reason of failure.
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Tasks that need interaction: X
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Resolve
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When at least one task existing in the management server’s database needs human interaction, the Dashboard shows an alert. Click Resolve… to open the Tasks Need Interaction window where you can examine every case and specify your decision.
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Failed to check licenses on X machine(s)
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View log
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Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 agent connects to Acronis License Server at the start and then every 1–5 days, as specified by the agent configuration parameters. The alert is displayed if the license check was unsuccessful on at least one agent. This might happen if the license server was unavailable, or the license key data was corrupted. Click View log to find out the cause of the unsuccessful check.
If the license check does not succeed for 1-60 days (as specified by the agent configuration parameters), the agent will stop working until a successful license check.
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Vaults with low free space: X
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View vaults
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The alert is displayed if at least one centralized vault has less than 10% free space. View vaults will take you to the Centralized vaults view where you can examine the vault size, free space, content and take the necessary steps to increase the free space.
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Bootable media was not created
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Create now
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To be able to recover an operating system when the machine fails to boot, you must:
- Back up the system volume (and the boot volume, if it is different)
- Create at least one bootable media.
Create now will launch the Bootable Media Builder.
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No backups have been created for X day(s) on Y machine(s)
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Show list
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The Dashboard warns you that no data was backed up on some of the registered machines for a period of time.
To configure the length of time that is considered critical, select Options > Console options > Time-based alerts.
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Not connected to management server for X day(s): Y machine(s)
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View the machines
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The Dashboard warns you that no connection was established between some of the registered machines and the managemen
t server for a period of time, thus indicating that the machines might not be centrally managed.
Click View the machines to open the Machines view with the list of machines filtered by the “Last connect” field.
To configure the length of time that is considered critical, select Options > Console options > Time-based alerts.
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It is recommended to back up the management server to protect its configuration. Install the agent on the management server machine and add the machine to AMS.
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Install Acronis components
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Install Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows to back up the machine where the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server resides.
Click Install now to launch the installation wizard.
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Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server has not been backed up for X day(s)
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Back up now
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The alert is displayed only if Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows is installed on the management server. The alert warns that no data was backed up on the management server for a period of time.
Back up now will take you to the Create backup plan page where you can instantly configure and run the backup operation.
To configure the length of time that is considered critical, select Options > Console options > Time-based alerts.
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Activities
The stacked column chart lets you explore the daily history of the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 agents’ activities. The history is based on the log entries, collected from the registered machines and from the management server. The chart shows the number of log entries of each type (error, warning, information) for a particular day.
Statistics for the selected date are displayed to the right of the chart. All the statistics fields are interactive, i.e. if you click any field, the Log view will be opened with the log entries pre-filtered by this field.
At the top of the chart, you can select the activities to display depending on the presence and severity of the errors.
The Select current date link focuses selection to the current date.
System view
The System view section shows summarized statistics of registered machines, tasks, backup policies, and centralized backup plans. Click the items in these sections (except for centralized backup plans) to obtain the relevant information. This will take you to the appropriate view with pre-filtered machines, tasks, or backup policies respectively. For instance, if you click Idle under Tasks, the Tasks view will be opened with tasks filtered by the Idle state.
Information presented in the System view section is refreshed every time the management server synchronizes with the machines. Information in other sections is refreshed every 10 minutes and every time you access the Dashboard.
Vaults
The Vaults section displays information about centralized managed vaults. You can sort vaults by name or by used space. In some cases information about free space in a vault might be not available, for example, if the vault is located on a tape library. If the vault itself is not available (offline), the “Vault is not available” message will be displayed.
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