Acronis Backup for Windows Server Essentials - User Guide - Manual (Page 359)

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15.4 Administering Acronis Backup Management Server
This section describes the views that are available through the navigation tree of the console
connected to the management server, and explains how to work with each view.
15.4.1 Dashboard
Use the Dashboard view to estimate at a glance the health of data protection on the registered
machines. The dashboard displays the summary of Acronis Backup agents' activities, lets you check
for free space available in managed vaults, and rapidly identify and resolve any issues.
Recent alerts
The Recent alerts section draws your attention to issues that have occurred on the management
server, registered machines and in centralized vaults. It offers you ways of fixing or examining the
issues. By default, the section shows the five most recent alerts. Click the View all link to move to the
Alerts view and see all alerts. If no alerts or warnings have been fixed, the system displays "There are
no alerts".
Activity history
The stacked column chart in the Activity history section lets you explore the daily history of the
Acronis Backup 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 (Succeeded, With warnings, Failed) 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. Click the View all link to display in the Log view all activities. They are sorted by
the start date. Right-click the particular day on the column chart to show the context menu and
move to the Log view for the selected date.
The Current day button focuses selection to the current date.
Machines, backup plans, and recovery tasks
The Machines, Backup plans, and Recovery tasks sections show summarized statistics of registered
machines, backup plans, and recovery tasks. Click the items in these sections to obtain the relevant
information. This will take you to the appropriate view with pre-filtered machines, backup plans, or
recovery tasks respectively. For instance, if you click Need interaction under Recovery tasks, the
Backup plans and tasks view will be opened with the recovery tasks filtered by the Need interaction
state.
Information presented in the Machines, Backup plans, and Recovery tasks sections 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.
Applications
The Applications section displays the number of protected and unprotected applications running on
the registered machines.