Administrator's Guide
Table Of Contents
- 1 Administrator's Guide
- 1.1 About this document
- 1.2 Introduction to Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud
- 1.3 Installing Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud
- 1.3.1 Preparation
- 1.3.2 Installing and configuring RabbitMQ Server
- 1.3.3 Installing Acronis Backup Management Server
- 1.3.4 Using the management console
- 1.3.5 Integrating the management server with vCenter Server
- 1.3.6 Deploying Agent for VMware
- 1.3.7 Installing Acronis Backup Agent for vCloud
- 1.3.8 Configuring Acronis Backup Agent for vCloud
- 1.3.9 Checking network connections
- 1.3.10 Updating to a new version
- 1.3.11 Uninstallation
- 1.4 Logging in to the backup service
- 1.5 Administering organizations
- 1.6 Configuring the backup service
- 1.7 Generating usage reports
- 1.8 Collecting logs
- 1.9 Advanced cases
- 1.10 Security and customization
- 2 User's Guide
- 3 Terminology reference
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1.3.2 Installing and configuring RabbitMQ Server
Agent for vCloud obtains events from vCloud Director via the RabbitMQ Server AMQP broker.
If your vCloud Director already uses RabbitMQ Server, make sure that the exchange type is set to
topic, and continue to "Installing Acronis Backup Management Server" (p. 12).
If RabbitMQ Server is already installed, but not used by vCloud Director, skip to step 5 of the
following procedure.
To install and configure RabbitMQ Server
1. Download RabbitMQ Server from http://www.rabbitmq.com/download.html.
2. If you want to install RabbitMQ Server on a machine running Windows, download and run Erlang
Windows Binary File, which is available at http://www.erlang.org/download.html.
3. Follow the RabbitMQ installation instructions to install RabbitMQ on any convenient host. The
host must have network access to vCloud Director.
4. The RabbitMQ management plug-in is required so that you can configure RabbitMQ Server. Do
one of the following, depending on the operating system of the RabbitMQ Server host:
In Linux, run the following commands:
rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management
service rabbitmq-server stop
service rabbitmq-server start
In Windows:
Go to Start > All programs > RabbitMQ Server > RabbitMQ Command Prompt.
Ensure that the command prompt shows the folder containing the RabbitMQ Server
executable files, such as C:\Program Files\RabbitMQ Server\rabbitmq_server-3.1.5\sbin.
If necessary, change the folder by using the cd command.
Run the following command: rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management
Run Start > All programs > RabbitMQ Server > RabbitMQ Service - stop.
Run Start > All programs > RabbitMQ Server > RabbitMQ Service - start.
5. Open a web browser and go to the RabbitMQ Server Web UI located at: http://<server
name>:15672/. Here, <server name> is the address of the RabbitMQ Server host.
6. Provide the credentials of a RabbitMQ Server user. The default credentials are:
User name: guest
Password: guest
7. Click Exchanges.
8. Under Add a new exchange:
a. In Name, specify a name for a new exchange that will be used by Agent for vCloud. For
example, specify vcdExchange.
b. In Type, select topic.
c. Leave the default values for all other settings.
d. Click Add exchange.
9. Log in as an administrator to vCloud Director.
10. Click Administration.
11. Under System settings, click Extensibility.
12. Under Notifications, select the Enable notifications check box.
13. Under AMQP Broker Settings: