User guide

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To connect to an Acronis component, you need the administrator’s privileges on the remote
machine.
To connect to a component
1. On the Connect menu, click Connect.
2. In Machine, specify the name or IP address of the machine where the component is installed. To
open the list of machines on your network, click Browse.
3. In User name and Password, specify the user name and password of an administrator on that
machine.
4. To save the password for the user name, select the Save password check box.
Alternatively, you can connect to the corresponding component when you open the Machines,
Deployment tasks, PXE server, or Licenses view. In the welcome screen, you will be asked to connect
to Acronis Snap Deploy 5 OS Deploy Server if this component is not installed on the local machine.
Connecting to a component on a remote machine
Connection to a component is needed to perform the following operations:
 Managing deployment (p. 84): connect to Acronis Snap Deploy 5 OS Deploy Server.
 Creating a master image of a machine without restarting it (p. 74): connect to Acronis Snap
Deploy 5 Management Agent.
 Validating a master image (p. 83): connect to Acronis Snap Deploy 5 Management Agent.
 Managing licenses (p. 59): connect to Acronis Snap Deploy 5 License Server.
 Configuring Acronis PXE Server (p. 71): connect to Acronis PXE Server.
No connection is needed to perform the following operations:
 Creating an Acronis bootable media (p. 65) or a WinPE-based bootable media (p. 68)
 Installing Acronis components remotely (p. 51)