User guide

1.4 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