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Installation of Acronis Snap Deploy 4 Management Console also includes the media builders for

creating an Acronis bootable media and a bootable media based on Windows Preinstallation

Environment (WinPE).

Once Acronis Snap Deploy 4 Management Console is installed, you can install other components

remotely (p. 47).

4.5.3.2 Installation of Acronis Snap Deploy 4 License Server

Acronis Snap Deploy 4 License Server is a component that tracks licenses of Acronis products. Install

Acronis Snap Deploy 4 License Server on a machine accessible to Acronis Snap Deploy 4 OS Deploy

Server. Consider installing both products on the same machine.

Installation of Acronis Snap Deploy 4 License Server also includes Acronis Snap Deploy 4 License

Server Management Tool. This is a command-line utility for controlling the license server.

Alternatively, you can control the license server by using Acronis Snap Deploy 4 Management

Console.

Note: If you have already installed a license server that came with another Acronis product, you will still need to

install Acronis Snap Deploy 4 License Server. You can install both license servers on the same machine. The

machine will then act as a common license server for all Acronis products.

After installation, Acronis Snap Deploy 4 License Server launches automatically as a Windows service.

When installing Acronis Snap Deploy 4 License Server, you can add the license keys to it. You can add

license keys at a later time, either by using the management console (p. 54) or in the command-line

mode (p. 56).

4.5.3.3 Installation of Acronis Snap Deploy 4 OS Deploy Server

Acronis Snap Deploy 4 OS Deploy Server is a component that performs centralized deployment

through the network with the help of bootable components called agents.

Before installing Acronis Snap Deploy 4 OS Deploy Server, you need to install Acronis Snap Deploy 4

License Server (p. 45) and import license keys to it. You can install both servers on the same machine.

If Acronis Snap Deploy 4 License Server is not installed on the machine where you are installing

Acronis Snap Deploy 4 OS Deploy Server, the setup program will ask you to specify a license server.

Browse to the server, or enter its name or IP address.

Note: We recommend specifying the license server by its machine name. If you specify the license server by its IP

address, Acronis Snap Deploy 4 OS Deploy Server will not be able to find the license server if this address

changes.

There is one exception to this recommendation: if your license server machine has non-English characters in its

host name, you need to specify license server by IP address. Currently Unicode is not supported in Acronis Snap

Deploy 4 communication between components, so Acronis Snap Deploy 4 OS Deploy Server will not be able to

resolve the license server name properly if it contains non-English characters (i.e. if it contains Unicode

symbols).

Installation of the deployment server does not decrease the number of licenses. The software just

checks the availability of the licenses and stores the specified parameters of Acronis Snap Deploy 4

License Server to be able to access the license server at the time of deployment.