Administrator's Guide

Table Of Contents

 If you chose SQL Server Authentication when installing the management server, use the SQL

Server login account that you specified for the management server (see step 10b in "Installing

the management server" (p. 15)).

 If you chose Windows Authentication for the management server, use the user account that you

specified for the management server service (see step 9 in "Installing the management server" (p.

15)).

Alternatively, you can create a dedicated SQL Server account with minimal rights and a non-expiring

password.

To create a dedicated account for Agent for vCloud

1. Run Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio.

2. Expand the instance, expand Security, right-click Logins, and then click New Login.

3. In Login name, type the name of the account. For example: vCloudBackupUser

4. Select SQL Server authentication, and then type and confirm the password for the account.

5. Clear the User must change password at next login check box. We recommend that you also

clear the Enforce password expiration check box. Otherwise, you will have to change the Agent

for vCloud configuration every time the password expires.

6. On the User Mapping page, select the check boxes for all databases whose names start with

acronis (such as acronis_cms). For each of these databases, in Database role membership…,

select the db_datareader and public check boxes.

1.3.4 Using the management console

Acronis Backup Management Console enables you to connect directly to the management server.

The console can be installed along with the management server (by default) or on any other machine

that has network access to the management server.

To be able to connect the console to the management server, a user must be a member of the

Acronis Centralized Admins group on the management server machine.

If the console is installed on a different machine, the user must also be a member of the Acronis

Remote Users group on the management server machine.

Both groups are automatically created during the management server installation. Members of the

Administrators group are silently included in both groups.

To start the management console

Double-click the Acronis Backup icon on the desktop, or select from the Start menu: Acronis >

Acronis Backup Management Console > Acronis Backup.

To connect the console to the management server

1. Click Connect to a management server.

2. Specify the host name or IP address of the management server machine and the credentials of a

user account that has the rights described earlier in this topic.

1.3.5 Integrating the management server with vCenter Server

Acronis Backup Management Server has to be integrated with the vCenter Server for the resource

group.

To do this, use Acronis Backup Management Console. The console is automatically installed with the

management server.