Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 1776 Direct managementThis section covers operations that can be performed directly on a managed machine by using thedirect console-agent connection. The content of this section is applicable to both stand-alone andadvanced editions of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10.6.1 Administering a managed machineThis section describes the views that are available through the navigation tree of the consoleconnected to a managed machine, and explains how to work with each view.6.1.1 DashboardUse the Dashboard to estimate at a glance whether the data is successfully protected on themachine. The dashboard shows the summary of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 agent's activities andenables you to rapidly identify and resolve any issues.AlertsThe alerts section draws your attention to issues that have occurred on the machine and offers youways of fixing or examining them. The most critical issues are displayed on the top. If there are noalerts or warnings at the moment, the system displays "No alerts or warnings".Types of alertsThe table below illustrates the types of messages you may observe.Description Offer CommentFailed tasks: X Resolve Resolve will open the Backup plans and Tasks view withfailed tasks, where you can examine the reason of failure.Tasks that need interaction: X Resolve Each time a task needs human interaction, the Dashboardshows a message to inform you what action has to beperformed (for example, insert new CD orStop/Retry/Ignore on an error).Failed to check the license forthe current edition. X day(s)remaining until the softwarestops working.Please make sure you have avalid license on AcronisLicense Server.Connect Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 agent connects to AcronisLicense Server at the start and then every 1–5 days (thedefault is 1 day), as specified by the agent configurationparameters.If the license check does not succeed for 1–60 days, asspecified by the agent configuration parameters (thedefault is 30 days), the agent will stop working until therehas been a successful last license check.Cannot check the license keyfor the current edition for Xdays. Either Acronis LicenseServer was unavailable, or thelicense key data wascorrupted. Check connectivityto the server and run AcronisLicense Server to managelicenses.Connect Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 is stopped. For the past Xdays, the agent was unable to check whether its license isavailable on Acronis License Server.This is probably due to the license server beingunavailable. You may also want to ensure that the licensesare present on the license server, or that the license keydata was not corrupted.After a successful license check the agent will start
