Dashboard

The Dashboard provides an intuitive display providing real time monitoring information.

Network Communication Status

The current communication status (received and transmitted data volume) and the number of the connected clients are displayed. By clicking on the received / transmitted data volume, you can select the display format [bits / sec] or [bps].
Click on the number of the connected clients. You can monitor the information for the respective connected clients.

The received / transmitted data volume from / to ActiveImage Protector and the received data volume from Actiphy ImageCenter (with StorageServer) and Actiphy StorageServer are displayed.

When selecting [Browse Image] - [Image Browser], or while individual items are being downloaded from an image by using [Browse Image], you can monitor the image mount status under [x Mounted]. You can unmount the image that is not downloaded yet.

Bucket Tree

You can create and manage the buckets. The following items are displayed in the tree:

• All Bucket
  The created buckets are displayed. When connection to ActiveImage Protector client is established, the created buckets are displayed. Expand this item and the client alias is displayed.

• Client Alias
  ActiveImage Protector client alias which the backup task was executed.
  Ex: ACTIPHY-DEMO

  Expand this item and image aliases are displayed. Right-click on the unnecessary items to delete after deleting every image sets.

• Image Alias An alias based on the image type is displayed.

Create New Bucket

Click [Add new bucket] to add a new bucket.

Please configure the following:

• Bucket Name Bucket name is displayed when the connection from ActiveImage Protector client to ImageServer is established.

  When a bucket is created without defining the bucket name, the new bucket is created under the name “Bucket_"."

• Bucket Path
  Please specify the path of the location to configure the bucket. When [Do not automatically create sub-folder in name of Bucket Name] option is disabled, the image file can be saved in the path specified without creating the subfolder.

  When the bucket is created without specifying the path, the bucket is configured in the path specified by selecting [Preference] - [Bucket].

• Enable Disk Quota Please specify the maximum limit of the disk space allocated to the disk.

  When the used disk space exceeds the limit while running the backup task for ActiveImage Protector client, the backup process continues.
  When the backup task starts while the used disk space exceeds the limit, the backup task for ActiveImage Protector client fails in Error -800.

• Default Client Quota
  Please specify the maximum limit of the disk space allocated to the new client.

  When the used disk space exceeds the predefined limit while running the backup task for ActiveImage Protector client, the backup process continues.
  When the backup task is started while the used disk space has exceeded the predefined limit, the backup task for ActiveImage Protector client fails in Error -802.

• Require Authentication to Access
  Enable [Require Authentication to Access] option to request for authentication before accessing a client.

When specifying a bucket as the backup destination from ActiveImage Protector Client Version 7.8.1 or earlier, please specify the bucket from [Actiphy ImageCenter].

Inter-File Deduplication

This product provides Inter-File Deduplication feature enabling to deduplicate across files within a bucket. Inter-File Deduplication is performed at the following times:

• When a new base image files is created
• When Consolidation of incremental image files is performed.

Since Inter-File Deduplication is performed across files, an image file copied using Windows Explorer cannot be used independently. Image files that have been processed using Inter-File Deduplication are saved as [.dedupe] in the bucket’s actual folder.
In order to retrieve an image file in operable state, go to [Bucket View] tab - [Image Set] list and select the image alias and run [Export Image] in the right-click menu.

Image files replicated to a remote storage can be used independently.

Inter-File Deduplication across bucket is not supported.

Bucket View tab

When selecting an image alias in the bucket tree, the Image Set List is displayed on the [Bucket View] tab in the right pane.

• Alias for an Agent-Based Backup Image This alias is displayed as the name of the client on which [Volume Backup] was performed . Ex: actiphy-demo

  Image files created from a single disk or multiple disks with [Designate a separate image file set per disk] enabled are displayed in the right pane as follows. The red highlighted area indicates the disk number, and the blue highlighted area indicates the generation.

  

  Image files created from multiple disks with [Designate a separate image file set per disk] disabled are displayed in the right pane as follows. The red highlighted area indicates that multiple disks are included, and the blue highlighted area indicates the generation.

  

• Alias for an HyperBack Image Backup source virtual machine name selected for [HyperBack] is displayed. Ex: Actiphy_VM

  The image file is displayed in the right pane as follows.
  The red highlighted area indicates that the image is created as a VM image, and the blue highlighted area indicates the generation.

  

  If the image was created as a Multi-VM (MVM) image, it is displayed as [MVM (VM Name…)].
  Ex: MVM（Actiphy_VM2…）

  Image files are displayed in the right pane as follows.
  The red highlighted area indicates that multiple virtual machines are included, and the blue highlighted area indicates the generation.

  

Items that are no longer needed can be deleted from the right-click menu after all image sets have been deleted.

Right-click Menu

Right-click an image set and select the following operation in the right-click menu.

• Status of Workflow You can monitor the status of the respective states in Workflow.

• Browse Image
  You can mount and browse an image and download any file or folder.
  You can switch the source image using the pull-down list in the upper-left corner.

  

  When a file is selected, you can specify a destination and download it. The operation is performed via Web browser.

  • Google Chrome, Micrsoft Edge
    You can specify the export destination folder. Since edit-file permission must be granted to the export destination folder via Web browser, a folder containing system files cannot be selected. You are recommended to specify a newly created folder.

    If [Safe Browsing] is enabled in Google Chrome, Web browser may block the export of large-sized image files.
    In this case, temporarily set [Safe Browsing] to [No protection] and try again, or export the image in ZIP archive format. The ZIP file is saved in Web browser’s download folder.

  • Mozilla Firefox
    Only export in ZIP archive format is allowed. The ZIP file is saved in Web browser’s download folder.

  When a folder is selected, it is downloaded as a ZIP archive to Web browser’s download folder.

  Please do not close Web browser or the tab in which the operation is being performed during the export. It will cause the operation to fail.

  If the number of disks exceeding the number of available drive letters are mounted, the contents in the image may not be displayed. In this case, unmount any unnecessary disks and try browsing the image again.
  You can monitor the mount status and unmount unused disks from [x Mounted] at the top of the Dashboard.

• Export Images
  You can export an image file in a standalone, usable format. The export is performed via Web browser.

  • Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge
    You can specify the destination folder for the export. Since edit-file permission must be granted to the export destination folder via Web browser, you cannot specify a folder that contains system files. You are recommended to specify a newly created folder.

    If [Safe Browsing] is enabled in Google Chrome, the Web browser may block the export of large-size image files.
    In this case, temporarily change [Safe Browsing] to [No protection] and try again, or export the image as a ZIP archive. The ZIP archive is saved to the Web browser’s download folder.

  • Mozilla Firefox
    Only export as a ZIP archive is available. The ZIP archive is saved to the Web browser’s download folder.

  Please do not close Web browser or the tab where the export is in progress. Otherwise, the export may fail before it is completed.

*Add Image Password
You can configure the password to use when running BootCheck on password-protected images.

• One-time Task
  You can select to run Verify, Consolidation, BootCheck or Replication task.
  For more details, please access here.

Workflow Setting tab

Selecting this tab allows you to configure a Workflow for the hierarchy currently selected in the bucket tree.
For more details, please access here.

Replication View tab

Selecting this tab allows you to monitor the replication status of the hierarchy currently selected in the bucket tree. For more details, please access here.

Current Task

Tasks currently in progress are listed. You can also cancel selected tasks individually. If you want to temporarily prevent Workflows from starting for server maintenance, enable [Prevent new tasks from running].

Event

Various events are displayed.

You can filter the item types displayed in .

For items with task logs, you can view the log details by clicking in the Log column.